Reading list

Creation Myths and Initiation Rites

Skapelsemyter och initiationsriter

Course
RT1342
First cycle
7.5 credits (ECTS)

About the Reading list

Valid from
2025-11-05
Decision date
2025-06-12


RT 1342
Skapelsemyter och initiationsriter

Bibeln 1 Mos kap 1–11

Bowie, F 2005
The Anthropology of Religion. Blackwell (2 upplagan), kap 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 och 10.

Gilgamesh-eposet 2022
Översättare: Knut Tallqvist. Modernista klassiker

Hultkrantz, Å 2022 (1997) The Attraction of Peyote*. Afterworlds Press

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Utdrag ur:

Andersson, D “Shamanen” I Andersson, D 2019 Ursprungsfolkens religioner. Studentlitteratur, s 125–136

Burkert, W 1983” Sacrifice as an Act of Killing”. I Burkert, W 1983 Homo Necans, University of California Press, s 1-48

“The Epic of Creation”. Myths From Mesopotamia. Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Oxford Univetsity Press 1989

Léon-Portilla, M 1990
The Pre-Columbian Concept of the Universe” I Léon-Portilla, M 1990
Aztec Thought and Culture. University of Oklahoma Press, s 25-61

Overmyer, D L 1993 “Religions of China: The World as a Living System”. I Eerhart, H B (ed) 1993 Religious Traditions of the World. Harper One. S 985-1049

The Rigveda Myth: https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/rigveda/rv10090.htm