Ritual Soundings

"Ritual Soundings incorporates a remarkable range of diverse case studies that demonstrate Weiss's thorough scholarship and great knowledge surrounding women's performance practices within localized forms of major world religions." --Journal of Folklore Research Reviews

"This study is a treasure trove of marriage-rituals that women perform within the context of the world religion they are affiliated to. It is a pleasure to savour the presentation of their variety." --Religion and Gender

"As I read along, I found myself smiling and nodding at the text's cleverness and its validating evidence for women's agency in the performance of scandalous 'soundings' of protest and dissent. This is a fascinating, well-written, and extraordinarily well-research book."--Ellen Koskoff, author of A Feminist Ethnomusicology: Writings on Music and Gender

"A fine book that synthesizes and analyzes a fascinating variety of case studies. She argues that comparative studies are ethically important because they enable us to see connections--how people in different contexts respond to situations in some interestingly similar ways--rather than focus on what divides us."--Lisa I. Knight, author of Contradictory Lives: Baul Women in India and Bangladesh