Matthias Egeler (Professor of Old Norse, Professor of Old Norse, Go

Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural

Nordic Perspectives on Landscape Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• AAR Religion, Culture, and History
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9780197747360
• ISBN-10: 0197747361
• Artikelnr.: 69190786

Autorenporträt

Matthias Egeler has held scholarships and fellowships in Oxford, Cambridge, Berlin, and Cork, and has been principal investigator of a series of projects at LMU Munich, Germany. His research interests include the history of religions and the Nordic and Celtic literatures of the Middle Ages. He currently directs a research project on landscape-related storytelling and folk belief in the Icelandic Westfjords. In 2022, he was appointed Supernumerary Professor in Munich, and now teaches at Goethe University, Frankfurt on the Main, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Prelude
* I. Introduction and Exposition
* Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural: Introduction to Theories
and Concepts
* Strandir: Exposition of an Icelandic Landscape
* II. Twelve Movements: Aspects of the Engagement with the Supernatural
Landscape
* Theses on the Supernatural Landscape
* Time and Memory
* Repeating Patterns
* Identity
* Morality
* Labor
* Playfulness and Adventure
* Power and Subversion
* Sound
* Emotions
* Coping with Contingency
* Home and Unhomeliness
* Nature and Environment
* III. Coda
* Theses on the Supernatural Landscape
* Transformations between the Country and the City
* IV. Encore
* Theses on the Supernatural Landscape
* Being-in-a-Place? Retrospect and Prospects
* Bibliography
* Abbreviations of Archives
* Archival Sources
* Rannsóknasetur Háskóla Íslands á Ströndum-Þjóðfræðistofa
* Náttúrustofa Vestfjarða á Hólmavík
* Stofnun Árna Magnússonar í íslenskum fræðum
* Secondary Literature and Printed Sources