Religion and Folk Cosmology
Subtitle: Scenarios of the Visible and Invisible in Rural Egypt
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: December 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780897899246
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Folklore; Islam; Rural conditions; Social Science; Sociology; Egypt; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; General; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology; Ethnophilosophy; Anthropology - Cultural; Islamic cosmology
First sentence: The folk song below, prayerfully alive, captures the divine unity and oneness underlying the apparent multiplicity and diversity of cosmological, social, economic, and psychological phenomena and presents a meaningful introduction to rural Egyptians' holistic cosmological thought: Water irrigates the trees, but their fruits are not one.