Introduction to the Special Issue on Religion and the Experience of Nature

Authors

  • Matthias Egeler Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Institut für Skandinavistik

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.23386

Keywords:

Religion, Nature, glaciers, folklore

Abstract

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References

Archival Material

Archival material listed here is held at the Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies in Reykjavík, as well as digitized at Nafnið.is

(https://nafnid.is/). Following Icelandic convention, Icelandic authors are alphabetized according to their first names, not their patronymics.

Filippus M. Gunnlaugsson. 1929. ‘Ós (Hrófbergshreppur, Strandasýsla)’. Typewritten transcript of an account written by hand in 1929 and included in the local circular Viljinn 8, no. 3 (1930). https://nafnid.is/ornefnaskra/17590

Matthías Helgason. n.d. ‘Örnefnaskrá Goðdals (Strandasýsla, Kaldrananeshreppur)’. https://nafnid.is/ornefnaskra/17477

Rósmundur Jóhannsson. 1949. ‘Goðdalur í Bjarnarfirði. Örnefni og sagnir’. https://nafnid.is/ornefnaskra/17478

Published References

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Andri Snær Magnason. 2008. Dreamland. A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation (London: Citizen Press) (Icelandic original edn. 2006: Draumalandið: Sjálfshjálparbók handa hræddri þjóð (Reykjavík: Mál og menning)).

Anonymous. 1949. ‘Harmleikurinn í Goðdal: Gekk í berhögg við álögin – og nú er bærinn í rúst. Viðtal við Jóhann Kristmundsson bónda frá Goðdal’. Vísir. 11 January: 5–6.

Ásdís Aðalbjörg Arnalds, Ragna Benedikta Garðarsdóttir, and Unnur Diljá Teitsdóttir. 2008. Könnun á íslenskri þjóðtrú og trúarviðhorfum ([Reykjavík]: Félagsvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands). http://thjodfraedi.hi.is/sites/thjodfraedi.hi.is/files/null/konnun_a_islenskri_thjodtru_og_truarvidhorfum_0.pdf

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Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir and Jón Jónsson. 2019. ‘Álagablettir á Ströndum’, Strandapósturinn 51: 84–92.

Dagrún Ósk Jónsdóttir and Jón Jónsson. 2021. Álagablettir á Ströndum (Strandir: Sauðfjársetur á Ströndum og Rannsóknasetur HÍ á Ströndum – Þjóðfræðistofa).

Einar Ólafur Sveinsson. 2003.The Folk-Stories of Iceland. Revised by Einar G. Pétursson, translated by Benedikt Benedikz, edited by Anthony Faulkes (London: Viking Society for Northern Research – University College London).

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Sigurður Bogi Sævarsson. 2014. ‘Barnaskólajökullinn bráðinn’. Morgunblaðið. 17 January: 15.

Taylor, Bron. 2020. ‘Dark Green Religion: A Decade Later’, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 14.4: 496–510. http://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.34630

———. 2010. Dark Green Religion. Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press).

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———. 1976. ‘Geopiety: A Theme in Man’s Attachment to Nature and to Place’, in David Lowenthal and Martyn J. Bowden (eds. with the assistance of Mary Alice Lamberty) Geographies of the Mind: Essays in Historical Geosophy in Honor of John Kirtland Wright (New York: Oxford University Press): 11–39.

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Published

2024-01-08

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Special Issue - Religion + the Experience of Nature

How to Cite

Egeler, M. . (2024). Introduction to the Special Issue on Religion and the Experience of Nature. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 18(1), 5–16. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.23386