Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean

ISBN-13: 9780367182175 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

Erica Ferg

Opis

Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean explores the influence of geography on religion and highlights a largely unknown story of religious history in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Spis treści

1.Geography and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean  2. Levantine Geography, History, and Agrarian Religion  3. Ancient Near Eastern Religion and the Storm-God Baal-Hadad  4. The Hebrew Bible and Elijah  5. Early Christianity and Saint George  6. The Emergence of Islam and Al-Khiḍr  7. Eastern Mediterranean Shared Religious History  Bibliography

O autorze

Erica Ferg is an assistant professor in the Liberal Arts department at Regis University in Denver, Colorado, where she teaches courses on Islam, Christianity, Judaism, world religions, and religious studies theories and methods. Her doctorate is in the Study of Religion, and her area of specialization is Eastern Mediterranean comparative religious history. Her research focuses on Mediterranean comparative religion, comparative linguistics, and archaeology. Prior to academia, Erica was a Persian linguist in the United States Air Force. Erica is at work on her second book, entitled Starry Nights: A Celestial History of Religion in the Mediterranean.