Religion, Nature, and Ambiguous Space in Ancient Mesopotamia: The Mountain Wilderness in Old Babylonian Religious Narratives.

This article discusses the nexus of religion and nature by means of an investigation of the mountain wilderness space in ancient Mesopotamia. Drawing inspiration from theories of social space and the field of religion and nature, it pays special attention to the mediality of the sources embedding th...

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Published in:	Numen: International Review for the History of Religions pp. 1 - 37
Main Author:	Feldt, Laura
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2015
Subjects:	Nature & religion Assyro-Babylonian religion Wilderness (Theology) History of religions Inanna (Sumerian deity) Social space Religion Mesopotamia
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