Wyrd ecology : heathen ritual and gifting relations /
"What if giving offerings matters not because of beliefs about appeasing the gods or the powers of nature, but because it gives people a sense of relatedness with the world that inspires them to care for it? Practices dismissed as outmoded superstition may play a critical role in shaping people...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Oxford ritual studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "What if giving offerings matters not because of beliefs about appeasing the gods or the powers of nature, but because it gives people a sense of relatedness with the world that inspires them to care for it? Practices dismissed as outmoded superstition may play a critical role in shaping people's sense of what matters and how we should comport ourselves. Making toasts, giving gifts, and making offerings matter to contemporary Heathens, and these practices contribute to their sense of how they should relate with others, including ecological relations. In Wyrd Ecology, Barbara Jane Davy presents an ethnography of contemporary Heathen gifting rituals in Canada that shows how such practices can contribute to the development of ecological conscience"-- |
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| Item Description: | Series statement from CIP data field. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0197804942 9780197804957 0197804950 9780197804933 0197804934 9780197804940 |