Women as Ritual Experts - Sered, Susan Starr (Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

This ethnography explores the religious beliefs of a group of elderly Jewish women living in Jerusalem. By analyzing their rituals, daily experiences, life-stories and non-verbal gestures, it uncovers the strategies these women have developed to circumvent the patriarchal institutions of Judaism.