Ingvild Saelid Gilhus: 3 books
Animals, Gods and Humans
Changing Attitudes to Animals in Greek, Roman and Early Christian Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Consulting a wide range of key texts and source material, *Animals, Gods and Humans *covers 800 years and provides a detailed analysis of early Christian attitudes to, and the position of, animals in Greek and Roman life and thought.
Both the pagan and Christian conceptions of animals are...
Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins
Laughter in the History of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins analyses how laughter has been used as a symbol in myths, rituals and festivals of Western religions, and has thus been inscribed in religious discourse. The Mesopotamian Anu, the Israelite Jahweh, the Greek Dionysos, the Gnostic Christ and the late modern Jesus were...
New Age Spirituality
Rethinking Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
New Age and holistic beliefs and practices - sometimes called the "new spirituality" - are widely distributed across modern global society. The fluid and popular nature of new age makes these movements a very challenging field to understand using traditional models of religious analysis....