RT Article
T1 In Unexpected Places: Ritual and Religious Belonging in the Book of Esther
JF Journal for the study of the Old Testament
VO 36
IS 3
SP 321
OP 332
A1 Wetter, Anne-Mareike
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2012
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1777014948
AB The religious content of the book of Esther is highly debated. Most approaches attempt to analyse religion in this narrative in terms of its similarities or dissimilarities with other texts from the Hebrew Bible. This article travels a different road. Applying ritual theory (more specifically, theories on rites-of-passage and ritualization) to selected parts of Esther, it explores processes of identity formation in the narrative in general, and their potential correlations with the religious identity of Esther and the Yehudite community in particular.
K1 Identity
K1 Ritualization
K1 rite-of-passage
K1 Religion
K1 Esther
DO 10.1177/0309089212437998