[INDOLOGY] Publication announcement: Images and Stories of the Origins of the World and of Humankind

[Julia Hegewald]

Dear colleagues and friends,

I am delighted to inform you about the publication of a new edited volume on creation myths and art and architecture reflecting such ideas from a comparative perspective, which my colleague Marion Gymnich and I have edited.




This is the table of contents - with many contributions on South Asian myths and objects/structures:

Table of Contents
 
Preface
 
Chapter 1
Introduction: Images and Stories of the Origins of the World and of Humankind
in Traditional and Modern Contexts
Julia A.B. Hegewald and Marion Gymnich
 
Chapter 2
Prevalent Themes and Motifs in Traditional Creation Mythology
Julia A.B. Hegewald
 
Chapter 3
Cyclic Indic Creations
Robert J. Del Bontà
 
Chapter 4
An Indian Critique of the Notion of Absolute Beginning
Satyanad Kichenassamy
 
Chapter 5
The Impact of Naṭarāja’s Drum: Visualisation of Naṭarāja’s role as creator through the architecture and iconographic programme of the Naṭarāja Temple in Chidambaram
Sandra Jasmin Schlage
 
Chapter 6
Reflections of the Origins of the World in the Water Architecture of South Asia
Julia A.B. Hegewald
 
Chapter 7
Creating a Landscape through Myths: The Journey of Naiṇī or Nāginā Devī, a Nine-fold Western Himalayan Hindu Goddess
Gerrit Lange
 
Chapter 8
Visual Modes of Chinese Cosmogonies
Claudia Wenzel
 
Chapter 9
Creation in the Kojiki and Nihongi and Hesiod’s Theogony: Yin and Yang and Divine Parentage
Hannah Weber
 
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
Ralf Krumeich
 
Chapter 11
From Ovid to Gregory of Nazianzus: A Hermetic Creation Story and Its Tradition
Fritz Graf
 
Chapter 12
Creatio-Ex-Mud: The Shape of Clay Creation in the Ancient Near East
Samantha Reilly
 
Chapter 13
Narratives of Monotheistic Creation between Islamic Philosophy (falsafah) and Ibn Taymīyah
Julio César Cárdenas Arenas
 
Chapter 14
The Creation of the World and the Creation of Man: Apologetic Argument for the Equality of Women in Feminist Qur’ānic Exegesis
Christine Schirrmacher
 
 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)
Daniel Grana-Behrens
 
Chapter 16
Creation Myth as a Decolonising Strategy
Reading Selected Retellings of Indian and Canadian Indigenous Myth of Creation
Athira Mohan
 
Chapter 17
Humanity and its Others: (Post-Darwinist) Stories of the Origins of Humankind
Marion Gymnich / Klaus Scheunemann
 
Chapter 18
Evolving Origins and the Artificial Human in Science Fiction
Stefan Lampadius
 
Chapter 19
Creation Myths as Part of Fantasy World-Building: The Case of Tolkien’s “Powers of the World” in The Silmarillion
Constance Wessel
 


We would be delighted if you ordered a copy for your institutional library.

With best wishes,

Julia (A.B. Hegewald).




Prof. Dr. Julia A. B. Hegewald
Professor of Oriental Art History
Head of Department
University of Bonn
Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies (IOA)
Department of Asian and Islamic Art History
Adenauerallee 10
53113 Bonn
Germany

Email: julia.hegewald at uni-bonn.de
www.aik.uni-bonn.de
Tel. 0049-228-73 7213
Fax. 0049-228-73 4042

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