Wu Zetian’s Buddhist Policy: A New Perspective

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword and Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Women’s History and Gender History in Japan 11
6. Part I: Businesswomen, Empresses, and Royal Women
7. Socio-Economic Aspects and Agency of Female Maš-da-ri-a Contributors in Presargonic Lagash 23
8. The Role of Women in Assyrian Foreign Policy 45
9. Women Involved in Daily Management in Achaemenid Babylonia: The Cases of Rē’indu and Andiya 63
10. Wu Zetian’s Buddhist Policy: A New Perspective 81
11. Part II: Priestesses
12. The Office and Responsibilities of the En Priestess of Nanna: Evidence from Votive Inscriptions and Documentary Texts 93
13. High Priestesses in Old Babylonian Nippur: The NIN and NIN-dingir Priestesses of Ninurta 121
14. Hittite Royal Ideology and the Uniqueness of the Priestess Titled NIN.DINGIR 141
15. The Roles of Women in the Practice of Ancient Mesopotamian Divination 163
16. Part III: Goddesses
17. Enheduana’s Invocations: Form and Force 187
18. On Language, Gender, Sex, and Style in the Sumerian Language 209
19. Venomous Scorpions and Venerable Women: The Relationship Between Scorpions, the Goddess Išḫara, and Queens in the Neo-Assyrian Period 263
20. The Networks of Ashtart-Aphrodite and the Archaic Mediterranean Koiné 289
21. The Lioness Goddess Statuary from the Rock-Cut Chambers at Northwest Saqqara and Their Cult in Middle Kingdom Egypt 303
22. Index 339