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Wilderness in Mythology and Religion
Approaching Religious Spatialities, Cosmologies, and Ideas of Wild Nature
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Edited by:
Laura Feldt
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English
Published/Copyright:
2012
About this book
Wilderness is one of the most abiding creations in the history of religions.
It has a long and seminal history and is of contemporary relevance in wildlife preservation and climate discourses. Yet it has not previously been subject to scrutiny or theorising from a cross-cultural study of religions perspective. What are the specific relations between the world’s religions and imagined and real wilderness areas? The wilderness is often understood as a domain void of humans, opposed to civilization, but the analyses in this book complicate and question the dualism of previous theoretical grids and offer new perspectives on the interesting multiplicity of the wilderness and religion nexus. This book thus 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 a diverse range of contexts including, but not limited to, ancient Greece, early Christian asceticism, Old Norse religion, the shamanism-Buddhism encounter in Mongolia, contemporary paganism, and wilderness spirituality in the US. It advances research on religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature and brings new understanding of the role of religion in human interaction with ‘the world’.Author / Editor information
Laura Feldt, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Reviews
"The fact that the anthology raises major and crucial questions about
how we should understand the relationship between man and nature, while
at the same time provides us with rich empirical material and analysis at the
highest academic level, speaks for the significance and relevance of Wilderness in Mythology and Religion."
Stefan Arvidsson in: Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 27/2015
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eBook published on:
October 1, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9781614511724
Hardcover published on:
September 14, 2012
Hardcover ISBN:
9781614512240
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6
Main content:
341
Audience(s) for this book
Academics, Libraries, Institutes, and Members of Ecological, Wildlife, and Biodiversity Conservation Movements and Societies.
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