The Religious Nile

ISBN: 9781784539788 出版年：2018 页码：482 Terje Oestigaard Bloomsbury Publishing

The Nile is arguably triver in the world. For millennia, the search for its source defeated emperors and explorers. Yet the search for its source also contained a religious quest - a search for the origin of its divine and life-giving waters. Terje Oestigaard reveals how the beliefs associated with the riva kcultural development and make-up of the societies and civilizations associated with it. Drawing upon his personal experience and fieldwork in Africa, including details of rites and ceremonies now fast disappearing, the author brings out the religious and spiritual meanings attached to the life-giving waters by those whose lives are so bound to the river. Part religious quest, part exploration narrative, the author shows hriver is a powerful source for a greater understanding of human nature, society and religion.