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Zusatztext In describing the extraordinary ubiquity of sacred water places around the world! this comprehensive collection simultaneously celebrates the rich cultural and historical diversity in the beliefs and practices through which people engage with them! celebrating water's essential role in generating life! health and societal wellbeing. A veritable wellspring of ideas. Professor Veronica Strang!Institute of Advanced Studies! Durham University Informationen zum Autor Celeste Ray is Professor of Environmental Arts and Humanities at the University of the South, USA. She is the author of The Origins of Ireland’s Holy Wells and Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South , and the editor of volumes considering ethnicity and historical ecology. Zusammenfassung Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry. The work combines perspectives from anthropology, religious studies, sociology, geography, archaeology, history and folklore. Inhaltsverzeichnis Holy Wells and Sacred Springs, Celeste Ray; Part 1: Ancient Influences; Chapter 1: Fons et Origo : Observations on Sacred Springs in Classical Antiquity and Traditions, Christopher M. McDonough; Chapter 2: Water Sources and the Sacred in Modern and Ancient Greece, Evy Johanne Håland; Chapter 3: Life and Death from the Watery Underworld: Ancient Maya Interaction with Caves and Cenotes, Nicholas Dunning; Part 2: Stewarding Curative Waters and Caring for Pilgrims; Chapter 4: "Go Drink from the Spring and Wash There": The Healing Waters of Lourdes, Michael Agnew; Chapter 5: The Well of Zamzam: A Pilgrimage Site and Curative Water in Islam, Ahmad Ghabin; Chapter 6: Sacrality, Waterfront Sacred Places in India: Myths and the Making of Place, Rana P.B. Singh; Part 3: Genii Loci and Ancestors; Chapter 7: Freshwater Sources and their Relational Contexts in Indigenous Australia: Views from the Past and Present, Liam Brady; Chapter 8: Inca Shrines: Deities in Stone and Water, Marco Curatola Petrocchi; Chapter 9: Dragon Wells and Sacred Springs in China, Jean DeBernardi, Yan Jie and Ma Junhong; Chapter 10: The Sacred Springs of the Tewa Pueblos, New Mexico, Richard Ford; Part 4: Temporal Powers, Social Identity and Sacred Geography; Chapter 11: Divine waters in Ethiopia: The Source from Heaven and Indigenous Water-Worlds in the Lake Tana Region, Terje Oestigaard and Gedef Abawa Firew; Chapter 12 : Ori Aiye : A Holy Well among the Ondo in Southeastern Yorubaland, Nigeria, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi and Ajisola Omojeje; Chapter 13: Sacred Wells of Banaras: Glorifications, Ritual Practices and Healing, Vera Lazzaretti; Chapter 14: Yaksuto: Korean Sacred Mineral Spring Water, Hong-key Yoon; Chapter 15: Sacred Hierarchy, Festival Cycles and Water Veneration at Chalma in Central Mexico, Ramiro Gómez Arzapalo Dorantes; Part 5: Medieval Europe; Chapter 16: Between Fons and Foundation: Managing a French Holy Well in the Miracula Sancti Theoderici, Kate M. Craig; Chapter 17: Finnaun y Doudec Seint: A Holy Spring in Early Medieval Brycheiniog, Wales, Andy Seaman; Chapter 18: Gvendarbrunnur of Medieval Iceland, Margaret Cormack; Part 6: Contested and Shared Sites; Chapter 19: A Higher Level of Immersion: A Contemporary Freshwater Mikvah Pool in Israel, Robert Phillips; Chapter 20: Waters at the Edge: Sacred Springs and Spatiality in Southwest Finnish Village Landscapes, John Björkman; Chapter 21: Memory and Martyrs: Holy Springs in Western Siberia, Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby; Chapter 22: Sacred and Healing Springs in the Republic of Macedonia, Snežana Filipova; Chapter 23: W...
