Wilderness in mythology and religion approaching religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature / [electronic resource] :
edited by Laura Feldt.
- New York : De Gruyter, c2012
- 1 online resource (vi, 341 p.)
- Religion and society, 1437-5370 ; v. 55 .
- Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ; v. 55. .
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.