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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and SocietyPublication details: Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (348 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781614511724
  • 1614511721
  • 1283857200
  • 9781283857208
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 200.9
LOC classification:
  • BL80.3 .W384 2012
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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.
Summary: 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 of religions analyses by offering in-depth case studies of the use and functions of wilderness spaces in diverse religions. It offers new theoretical perspectives on the study of religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature that challenge previous dichotomizing approaches.
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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 of religions analyses by offering in-depth case studies of the use and functions of wilderness spaces in diverse religions. It offers new theoretical perspectives on the study of religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature that challenge previous dichotomizing approaches.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.