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Sacred Nature - Animism and Materiality in Ancient Religions (Hardcover)
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Sacred Nature - Animism and Materiality in Ancient Religions (Hardcover)
Series: Material Religion in Antiquity, 2
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Sacred Nature: Animism and Materiality in Ancient Religions is the
second volume of the series Material Religion in Antiquity (MaReA).
The book collects the proceedings of the international online
workshop carrying the same title organized by CAMNES, SoRS on
20–21 May 2021. Sacred Nature brings together the perspectives of
scholars from different disciplines (archaeology, anthropology,
iconography, philology, history of religions) about the notions of
nature, sacredness, animism and materiality in ancient religions of
the Old and the New World. The contributions highlight various ways
of understandings the relationships that occurred between human
beings, animals, plants, rivers, deities and the land in the
religious life of ancient societies. In particular, each chapter
explores entangled aspects of the perception of nature and its
other-than-human inhabitants, and contributes to readdress some
notions about nature, personhood/agency, divinity/sacrality, and
materiality/spirituality in ancient religions and cosmologies. In
this line, the book seeks to promote a starkly inter-disciplinary
and religious-anthropological approach to the definition of
‘sacred nature’, especially engaging with the analytical
category of animism as a fruitful conceptual tool for the
investigation of human-environmental relations in the ancient
religious conceptions, representations and practices. Dialoguing
with animism and drawing upon the question on how an ancient
religion happened materially, the volume presents key case studies
that explore how nature and its non-human inhabitants were
understood, represented, engaged with and interwoven in the sacred
and sensuous landscapes of ancients.
General
Imprint: |
Oxbow Books
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Material Religion in Antiquity, 2 |
Release date: |
November 2022 |
Editors: |
Nicola Laneri
• Anna Perdibon
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Dimensions: |
240 x 170 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
336 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78925-917-9 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-78925-917-7 |
Barcode: |
9781789259179 |
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