1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779332803321

Autore

Feldt Laura

Titolo

Wilderness in mythology and religion [[electronic resource] ] : approaching religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature / / Laura Feldt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Oakville, Conn., : Equinox Pub., 2012

ISBN

1-283-85720-0

1-61451-172-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (348 p.)

Collana

Religion and society ; ; 55

Disciplina

200

Soggetti

Sacred groves

Wilderness areas - Religious aspects

Mythology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Wilderness in Mythology and Religion / Feldt, Laura -- 2. Greek Demons of the Wilderness: the case of the Centaurs / Bremmer, Jan N. -- 3. Wilderness and Hebrew Bible Religion - fertility, apostasy and religious transformation in the Pentateuch / Feldt, Laura -- 4. "The mountain, a desert place": Spatial categories and mythical landscapes in the Secret Book of John / Gilhus, Ingvild Sælid -- 5. "The truth is out there": Primordial lore and ignorance in the wilderness of Athanasius' Vita Antonii / Endsjø, Dag Øistein -- 6. Wilderness as a Necessary Feature in Hindu Religion / Qvortrup Fibiger, Marianne C. -- 7. Notes on Qur'ānic Wilderness - and its absence / Hoffmann, Thomas -- 8. Wilderness, Liminality, and the Other in Old Norse Myth and Cosmology / Schjødt, Jens Peter -- 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" / Hornborg, Anne-Christine -- 10. William Robertson Smith on the Wilderness / Segal, Robert A. -- 11. The Taiga Within. Topography and personhood in Northern Mongolia / Pedersen, Morten Axel -- 12. Ritual is Etiquette in the Larger than Human World: the two wildernesses of contemporary Eco-Paganism / Harvey, Graham -- 13. Wilderness, Spirituality and Biodiversity in North America - tracing an



environmental history from Occidental roots to Earth Day / Taylor, Bron -- Contributor biographies -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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'.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959000203321

Titolo

Innovations in the European economy between the wars / / edited by Francois Caron, Paul Erker, Wolfram Fischer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c1995

ISBN

9783110881417

3110881411

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Classificazione

NW 6700

Altri autori (Persone)

CaronFrançois <1931->

ErkerPaul

FischerWolfram

Disciplina

338/.064/094

Soggetti

Technological innovations - Economic aspects - Europe - History - 20th century

Research, Industrial - Europe - History - 20th century

Technological innovations - Economic aspects - Europe

Research, Industrial - Europe

Diffusion of innovations - Europe

Industrial organization - Europe

Comparative organization

Europe Economic conditions 1918-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface / FISCHER, WOLFRAM -- Introduction / CARON, FRANÇOIS -- Ι. The Extension of Technical Systems -- Introduction / TEMIN, PETER -- Innovation and Radio Industry in Europe during the Interwar Period / GRISET, PASCAL -- From Small Insulated Plants to Regional Networks: The Path of Growth of the Italian Electrical Industry from its Beginning to the 1930's / GIANNETTI, RENATO -- The German Long Distance Telephone Network as a Large Technical System, 1919-1939, and its Spin-offs for the Integration of Europe / SCHRÖTER, HARM G. -- II. The Transfer of Technology and its Diffusion -- Introduction / TUNZELMANN, G. NICK VON -- Spin-off from British and German Aircraft Technology after the Great War / BRAUN, HANS-



JOACHIM / EDGERTON, DAVID -- Technology and Chocolate: Research in the British Food Industry before 1940 / HORROCKS, SALLY -- III. The Structure of Enterprise and Innovation -- Introduction / CARON, FRANÇOIS -- Innovation and the Structure of the IG Farben / PLUMPE, GOTTFRIED -- Strategies of Growth and Innovation in the Decentralized Du Pont Company, 1921-1950 / HOUNSHELL, DAVID A. -- Strategy, Technological Capability, and Innovation: German Enterprises in Comparative Perspective / DORNSEIFER, BERND -- IV. The Formation and Development of Industrial Research and Technology -- Introduction / ROSENBERG, NATHAN -- The Choice between Competition and Cooperation: Research and Development in the Electrical Industry in Germany and the Netherlands, 1920-1936 / ERKER, PAUL -- Science and Industry. Modernisation Strategies in Norway 1900-1940 / SEJERSTED, FRANCIS -- The Evolution of European Industrial Technology in the Interwar Period / CANTWELL, JOHN -- Summary / ERKER, PAUL -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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