approaching religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature Feldt, Laura. text Electronic books. xx New York De Gruyter c2012 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (vi, 341 p.) 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. edited by Laura Feldt. Includes bibliographical references and index. Sacred space Cosmology Religious aspects Nature Religious aspects Wilderness areas Religious aspects RELIGION / Comparative Religion BL580 .W54 2012 291.35 1614511721 (electronic bk.) 9781614511724 (electronic bk.) http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=522452 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=522452 YDXCP 121217 20200709055719.0 ocn822018785