03190cam a2200517M 4500 ocn822018785 OCoLC 20200709055719.0 m d cr |n| 121217s2012 xx o 000 0 eng d YDXCP YDXCP OCLCO N$T 822025084 1614511721 (electronic bk.) 9781614511724 (electronic bk.) 9781614512240 1614512248 (OCoLC)822018785 (OCoLC)822025084 522452 (N$T) BL580 .W54 2012 BL lcco REL 017000 bisacsh 291.35 23 N$TA Wilderness in mythology and religion [electronic resource] : approaching religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature / edited by Laura Feldt. New York : De Gruyter, c2012 1 online resource (vi, 341 p.) Religion and society, 1437-5370 ; 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. Description based on print version record. Sacred space. Cosmology Religious aspects. Nature Religious aspects. Wilderness areas Religious aspects. RELIGION / Comparative Religion bisacsh Electronic books. Feldt, Laura. Print version: 9781614512240 1614512248 Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ; v. 55. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=522452 YBP Library Services YANK 9947869 EBSCOhost EBSC 522452 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 52403 52403