Sacraments, sacrifice, and ritual: High Church mysticism in by Armstrong, Margaret M.
By Armstrong, Margaret M.
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Commenting on Frazer, Peacock notes that Harrison “took his work several steps farther…finding in the religious impulse and its expression in ritual the center of that experience” (3). In addition she also credits William Robertson Smith and Edward Burnett Tylor as influences upon Harrison’s thinking. Nietzsche is credited with the concept of duality of rational and irrational, Bachofen with the theory of matriarchy in Prolegomena, and Durkheim and Bergson are cited as influences for Themis (181-182).
She writes that Themis, “is the ultimate expression of the religious experiences she had suffered through and the emotional scars she bore” (135). Intellectual Influences. Schlesier recognizes Harrison’s interest in religious ecstasy and states that it had been a preoccupation since her earliest studies of vase painting. She credits a reading of Rohde’s Psyche with this interest and states that it had brought the uniqueness of the worship of Dionysus and asceticism into her own research and led to a fascination with Rohde’s predecessor Nietzsche (132).
It suffices to note it as the watershed after which everything is new and different” (79). Ackerman believes that this experience, this “new birth through which she went was in fact a rite de passage, a death and rebirth, which she would come to understand in Themis as the paradigmatic Greek religious ritual” (80-81). Most importantly, Ackerman must be credited for understanding that ritual represented a very personal aspect of her life: Nevertheless, her scholarly work and her personal life were inextricably interwoven in a way that is rare for most intellectuals.