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020			_a9781575061184
040			_a1
041			_a0 eng
082			_a204.41
082			_bM387-N73
100			_aNissinen, Martti
100			_d(1959-...)
100			_eAuthor
245			_aSacred marriages
245			_bThe divine-human sexual metaphor from Sumer to early Christianity
245			_cMartti Nissinen
260			_aU.S.A
260			_bEisenbrauns
260			_c2008
300			_a543tr.
300			_bHardcover
300			_c23cm
520			_aThe title of this volume, “Sacred Marriages”, consciously plays with the traditional concept of sacred marriage, but the plural form, “sacred marriages,” gives the reader an idea that something more is at stake here than a monomaniacal idea of manifestations deriving from a single prototype. Following the guidelines of one of the contributors, Ruben Zimmermann, the editors tentatively define “sacred marriage” as a “real or symbolic union of two complementary entities, imagined as gendered, in a religious context.” “Sacred marriages” (plural), then, refers to various expressions of this kind of union in different cultures that seek to overcome, to cite Zimmermann again, “the great dualism of human and cosmic existence.” The subtitle indicates that the contributors are primarily interested in different aspects of the divine-human sexual metaphor―that is, the imagining and reenactment of a gendered relationship between the human and divine worlds. This metaphor, which is essentially about relationships rather than sexual acts, can find textual, ritual, mythical, and social expressions in different times and places. Indeed, the sacred marriage ritual itself should be considered not a manifestation of the “sacralized power of sexuality experienced in sexual intercourse” but one way of objectifying the divine-human sexual metaphor.
650			_aMarriage -- religious Aspects
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