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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• von Schnurbein, Stefanie

Titel

Asatru – A Religion of Nature?

Ist Teil von

• Norse Revival, 2016, Vol.5, p.180-215

Ort / Verlag

United States: BRILL

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Critiques of monotheism, the promotion of polytheism, and the related discourse on Nordic myth frequently work on the assumption that polytheism, and thus Paganism, is closer to nature and more conducive to ecological ideals than monotheisms. In comparison, monotheism and/or Christianity are seen as inimical to both natural human drives and to the natural environment. Such ideas can be traced back to theories of Germanic or Indo-European religion as fertility cults with a more intimate relation to nature than ‘desert religions,’ which allegedly originate in arid, infertile climates. These theories intersected with Romanticism’s revaluation of nature as a metaphor for