Wilderness in mythology and religion : approaching religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2012]
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| Series: | Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ;
v. 55. |
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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.