Wilderness in mythology and religion : approaching religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Feldt, Laura
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : De Gruyter, [2012]
Series:Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ; v. 55.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.