Wilderness in Mythology and Religion : Approaching Religious Spatialities, Cosmologies, and Ideas of Wild Nature.

Wilderness mythology is one of the most abiding creations in the history of religions, and yet it has not previously been subject to scrutiny or theorizing from a cross-cultural, "study-of-religions perspective". This book addresses the need for cross-cultural anthropological and history o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Feldt, Laura
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.
Colección:Religion and Society.
Temas:
Sacred space.
Cosmology > Religious aspects.
Nature > Religious aspects.
Wilderness areas > Religious aspects.
Lieux sacrés.
Cosmologie > Aspect religieux.
Nature > Aspect religieux.
Réserves de la vie sauvage > Aspect religieux.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Nature > Religious aspects
Sacred space
Wildnis > Motiv
Religion
Mytologi.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Wilderness in mythology and religion / Laura Feldt
  • 2. Greek demons of the wilderness: the case of the centaurs / Jan N. Bremmer
  • 3. Wilderness and Hebrew Bible religion: fertility, apostasy and religious transformation in the Pentateuch
  • 4, The mountain, in a desert place: spatial categories and mythical landscapes in the Secret book of John / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
  • 5. The truth is out there: primordial lore and ignorance in the wilderness of Athanasius' Vita Antonii / Dag Øistein Endsjø
  • 6. Wilderness as a necessary feature in Hindu religion / Marianne C. Qvortrup Fibiger
  • 7. Notes on the Qur'ānic wilderness, and its absence / Thomas Hoffmann
  • 8. Wilderness, liminality, and the other in Old Norse myth and cosmology / Jens Peter Schjødt
  • 9. Making a garden out of the wilderness: landscape, dwelling and personhood in the encounter between European settlers and the Mi'kmaq in New France
  • 10. William Robertson Smith on the wilderness / Robert A. Segal
  • 11. The Taiga within. Topography and personhood in Northern Mongolia / Morten Axel Pedersen
  • 12. Ritual is etiquette in the larger than human world: the two wildernesses of contemporary eco-paganism / Graham Harvey
  • 13. Wilderness, spirituality and biodiversity in North America: tracing an environmental history from Occidental roots to Earth Day
  • Contributors biographies.

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