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Landscape, religion, and the supernatural
1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations (some color), maps.
"Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural presents a summa of current and classic theorizing on religion and the supernatural in relationship to the land and develops this theorizing further by confronting it with a rich set of folkloristic and historical data. Focusing on the themes of "time and memory", "repeating patterns", "identity formation", "morality", "labor", "playfulness and adventure", "power and subversion", "sound", "emotions", "coping with contingency", "home and unhomeliness", as well as "nature and environment", the book engages with a broad range of theoretical concepts and approaches from the interdisciplinary field of landscape theory and the study of religions. It brings this theorizing into dialogue with the rich culture of local storytelling and landscape-related traditional beliefs of the Strandir district of the Icelandic Westfjords. In this rural region, landscape-related traditions have been collected since the early nineteenth century and continue to be important to this day. Confronting this rich heritage with the insights of landscape theory both in and beyond the study of religions allows important new contributions to theorizing landscape and religion, especially when it comes to considering the perspectives on landscape held by rural populations rather than the urban upper classes that have stood in the focus of research to date. The example of the Icelandic Westfjords shows the extreme richness of religious and supernatural approaches to the landscape that can be developed in rural communities, and how they are significantly and characteristically different from the urban perspectives of literature and the arts"--
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- 1. Introduction and Exposition -- Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural: Introduction to Theories and Concepts -- Analyzing Landscape and the Supernatural -- Religion, the Supernatural, and Folk Belief -- Landscape -- Looking at Landscapes: Ideology and Way of Seeing -- Living in Landscapes: Dwelling, Place, and Home -- Strandir: Exposition of an Icelandic Landscape -- The Church in Strandir -- Common Elements and Story Patterns of the Supernatural Landscape
Being-in-a-Place? Retrospect and Prospects -- Landscape: A Vignette -- Landscape: A Panoramic View -- Country and City: Being-in-a-Place and Looking-at-a-Place -- Bibliography -- Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]