TY  - BOOK
AU  - Feldt,Laura
TI  - Wilderness in mythology and religion: approaching religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature 
T2  - Religion and society, 1437-5370
SN  - 1614511721 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BL580 .W54 2012
U1  - 291.35 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Sacred space
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Nature
KW  - Wilderness areas
KW  - RELIGION / Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
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