Images and Stories of the Origins of the World and of Humankind

Name: Images and Stories of the Origins of the World and of Humankind
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Julia A. B. Hegewald Marion Gymnich(Herausgeber*in)

Mohr Siebeck (Verlag)

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Erschienen im September 2024

X, 531 Seiten

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Cover
Title
Table of Contents
Preface
Julia A. B. Hegewald and Marion Gymnich - Chapter 1: Introduction: Images and Stories of the Origins of the World and of Humankind in Traditional and Modern Contexts
Julia A. B. Hegewald - Chapter 2: Prevalent Themes and Motifs in Traditional Creation Mythology
Robert J. Del Bontà - Chapter 3: Cyclic Indic Creations
Satyanad Kichenassamy - Chapter 4: An Indian Critique of the Notion of Absolute Beginning
Sandra Jasmin Schlage - Chapter 5: The Impact of Na?araja's Drum: Visualisation of Na?araja's Role as Creator Through the Architecture and Iconographic Programme of the Na?araja's Temple in Chidambaram
Julia A. B. Hegewald - Chapter 6: Reflections of the Origins of the World in the Water Architecture of South Asia
Gerrit Lange - Chapter 7: Creating a Landscape through Myths: The Journey of Nagina Devi Devi, a Nine-fold Western Himalayan Hindu Goddess
Claudia Wenzel -Chapter 8: Visual Modes of Chinese Cosmogonies
Hannah Weber - Chapter 9: Creation in the Kojiki and Nihongi and Hesiod's Theogony: Yin and Yang and Divine Parentage
Ralf Krumeich - Chapter 10: Succession of Divine Generations and Multiple Creations of Human Beings: Conceptions and Images of the Origins of the World and Humankind in Ancient Greece
Fritz Graf - Chapter 11: From Ovid to Gregory of Nazianzus: A Hermetic Creation Story and its Tradition
Samantha Reilly - Chapter 12: Creatio-Ex-Mud: The Shape of Clay Creation in the Ancient Near East
Julio César Cárdenas Arenas - Chapter 13: Narratives of Monotheistic Creation between Islamic Philosophy (Falsafah) and Ibn Taymiyah
Christine Schirrmacher - Chapter 14: The Creation of the World and the Creation of Man: Apologetic Argument for the Equality of Women in Feminist Qur'anic Exegesis
Daniel Grana-Behrens - Chapter 15: The Cultural Foundations of the Sixteenth-Century Popol Vuh'Preamble' Addressing the Origin of the World and Humankind, and their Relation to the Classic Period of the Maya (300-1000 CE)
Athira Mohan - Chapter 16: Creation Myth as a Decolonising Strategy: Reading Selected Retellings of Indian and Canadian Indigenous Myths of Creation
Marion Gymnich/Klaus Scheunemann - Chapter 17: Humanity and its Others: (Post-Darwinist) Stories of the Origins of Humankind
Stefan Lampadius - Chapter 18: Evolving Origins and the Artificial Human in Science Fiction
Constanze Wessel - Chapter 19: Creation Myths as Part of Fantasy World-Building: The Case of Tolkien's Powers of Arda in The Silmarillion
Notes on Contributors
Index

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