Images and stories of the origins of the world and of humankind / edited by Julia A. B. Hegewald and Marion Gymnich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Images and Stories of the Origin(s) of the World and of Humankind (Conference) (2022 : Online)

Contributor:

Hegewald, Julia A. B., editor.

Gymnich, Marion, editor.

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Series:

Reality and hermeneutics ; 7.

Reality and hermeneutics: Bonn studies in the new humanities ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creation in art--Congresses.

Creation in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, [2024]

Contents:

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 Naṭarāja's Drum: Visualisation of Naṭarāja's Role as Creator Through the Architecture and Iconographic Programme of the Naṭarāja's Temple in Chidambaram

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 Nāginā Devī 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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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3161627377

9783161627378

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90101085556

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