Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural write by Matthias Egeler. This book was released on 2024. Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first study to tackle the relationship between landscape and religion in-depth. Author Matthias Egeler overviews previous theories of the relationship between landscape and religion and then pushes this theorizing further with a rich case study: the supernatural landscape of the Icelandic Westfjords. There, religion and the supernatural--from churches to elf hills--are ubiquitous in the landscape and, as Egeler shows, this example sheds entirely new light on core aspects of the relationship between landscape, religion, and the supernatural.
Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural
Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural write by Matthias Egeler. This book was released on 2024. Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural presents a summa of current and classic theorizing on religion and the supernatural in relationship to the land and develops this theorizing further by confronting it with a rich set of folkloristic and historical data. Focusing on the themes of "time and memory", "repeating patterns", "identity formation", "morality", "labor", "playfulness and adventure", "power and subversion", "sound", "emotions", "coping with contingency", "home and unhomeliness", as well as "nature and environment", the book engages with a broad range of theoretical concepts and approaches from the interdisciplinary field of landscape theory and the study of religions. It brings this theorizing into dialogue with the rich culture of local storytelling and landscape-related traditional beliefs of the Strandir district of the Icelandic Westfjords. In this rural region, landscape-related traditions have been collected since the early nineteenth century and continue to be important to this day. Confronting this rich heritage with the insights of landscape theory both in and beyond the study of religions allows important new contributions to theorizing landscape and religion, especially when it comes to considering the perspectives on landscape held by rural populations rather than the urban upper classes that have stood in the focus of research to date. The example of the Icelandic Westfjords shows the extreme richness of religious and supernatural approaches to the landscape that can be developed in rural communities, and how they are significantly and characteristically different from the urban perspectives of literature and the arts"--
The Paranormal and Popular Culture
The Paranormal and Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Paranormal and Popular Culture write by Darryl Caterine. This book was released on 2019-02-18. The Paranormal and Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims of the fantastical. And yet, in spite of this widespread enthusiasm, the academic world has been slow to study this development. This volume rectifies this gap in current scholarship by serving as an interdisciplinary overview of the relationship of the paranormal to the artefacts of mass media (e.g. novels, comic books, and films) as well as the cultural practices they inspire. After an introduction analyzing the paranormal’s relationship to religion and entertainment, the book presents essays exploring its spiritual significance in a postmodern society; its (post)modern representation in literature and film; and its embodiment in a number of contemporary cultural practices. Contributors from a number of discplines and cultural contexts address issues such as the shamanistic aspects of Batman and lesbianism in vampire mythology. Covering many aspects of the paranormal and its effect on popular culture, this book is an important statement in the field. As such, it will be of utmost interest to scholars of religious studies as well as media, communication, and cultural studies.
The Natural and the Supernatural
The Natural and the Supernatural - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Natural and the Supernatural write by John Oman. This book was released on 2014-08-21. The Natural and the Supernatural available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides a comprehensive discussion regarding the sacred aspects of human existence in their relationship with the material world.
In Gods We Trust
In Gods We Trust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Gods We Trust write by Scott Atran. This book was released on 2004-12-09. In Gods We Trust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements that have evolved in the human condition.
