Sacred waters: a cross-cultural compendium of hallowed springs and holy wells
Holy wells and sacred springs / Celeste Ray -- Fons et Origo : observations on sacred springs in classical antiquity and traditions / Christopher M. McDonough -- Water sources and the sacred in modern and ancient Greece / Evy Johanne Håland -- Life and death from the watery underworld : ancient Maya...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY
Routledge
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Water
/ Everyday culture
/ Sanctuary
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Springs ; Religious aspects B Holy wells B Springs Religious aspects B Springs ; Folklore B SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Generals B Electronic books B Springs Folklore B General ; bisacsh / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology |
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Erscheint auch als: 9780367445126 |
| Summary: | Holy wells and sacred springs / Celeste Ray -- Fons et Origo : observations on sacred springs in classical antiquity and traditions / Christopher M. McDonough -- Water sources and the sacred in modern and ancient Greece / Evy Johanne Håland -- Life and death from the watery underworld : ancient Maya interaction with caves and cenotes / Nicholas Dunning -- "Go drink from the spring and wash there" : the healing waters of Lourdes / Michael Agnew -- The well of Zamzam : a pilgrimage site and curative water in Islam / Ahmad Ghabin -- Sacrality, waterfront sacred places in India : myths and the making of place / Rana P.B. Singh -- Freshwater sources and their relational contexts in Indigenous Australia : views from the past and present / Liam Brady -- Inca shrines : deities in stone and water / Marco Curatola Petrocchi -- Dragon wells and sacred springs in China / Jean DeBernardi, Yan Jie and Ma Junhong -- The sacred springs of the Tewa Pueblos, New Mexico / Richard Ford -- Divine waters in Ethiopia : the source from heaven and indigenous water-worlds in the Lake Tana Region / Terje Oestigaard and Gedef Abawa Firew -- Ori Aiye : a holy well among the ondo in Southeastern Yorubaland, Nigeria / Raheem Oluwafunminiyi and Ajisola Omojeje -- Sacred wells of Banaras : glorifications, ritual practices and healing / Vera Lazzaretti -- Yaksutŏ : Korean sacred mineral spring water / Hong-key Yoon -- Sacred hierarchy, festival cycles and water veneration at Chalma in Central Mexico / Ramiro Gómez Arzapalo Dorantes -- Between fons and foundation : managing a French holy well in the Miracula Sancti Theoderici / Kate M. Craig -- Finnaun y doudec seint : a holy spring in early medieval Brycheiniog, Wales / Andy Seaman -- Gvendarbrunnur of medieval Iceland / Margaret Cormack -- A higher level of immersion : a contemporary freshwater mikvah pool in Israel / Robert Phillips -- Waters at the edge : sacred springs and spatiality in southwest Finnish village landscapes / John Björkman -- Memory and martyrs : holy springs in Western Siberia / Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby -- Sacred and healing springs in the Republic of Macedonia / Snežana Filipova -- Water sanctuaries of Hatay, Turkey / Jens Kreinath -- Sacred Waters of Haitian Vodou : the pilgrimage of Sodo / Elizabeth McAlister -- The Olympic Mountains and the sacrality of water in the Klallam world / Cailín Murray -- Back into the light : water and the indigenous uncanny in northeastern Japan / Ellen Schattschneider -- With sacred springs, without holy wells : the case of Estonia / Heiki Valk -- Holy wells of Wychwood Forest, England / Martin Haigh -- Holy wells and trees in Poland as an element of local and national identity / Wojciech Bedyński -- Visiting holy wells in seventeenth-century Sweden : the case of St. Ingemo's Well in Dala / Terese Zachrisson -- The Buddha's thumb, Nāga legends, and blessings of health : sacred water and religious practice in Thailand / Rachelle M. Scott -- At the end of the field, a pot of nemunai is boiling : a study of Lithuanian springs / Vykintas Vaitkevičius -- Hydrogeological characteristics of Irish holy wells / Bruce Misstear, Laurence Gill, Cora McKenna and Ronan Foley -- The holy springs of Russia's Orel Region : traditions of place and environmental care / Jane Costlow -- Sentient springs and sources of life : water, climate change and worldmaking practices in the Andes / Astrid B. Stensrud -- Cures, Flora and Fauna : Ireland's holy wells as sites of biocultural diversity / Celeste Ray. |
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| ISBN: | 1003010148 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4324/9781003010142. |