Spielarten faunistischer Religiosität in der Literatur der Gegenwart.

Abstract

This article examines the transnational boom of literary works in which a faunistic religiosity can be identified. This religiosity aims at transcending the human, at the extra-human and non-human in the form of special, wild animals, and at the spiritual and physical experience of a transspeciesistic cosmology, in which the boundary between nature and culture up to becoming an animal disappears. Not the wild in the sense of a savage person, but the wild as a transpersonal principle (savageness) is the focus of interest. Religiosity, which is to be understood as a response to the mechanized world of modernity and ignited by the wild, is placed in the framework of theoretical debates on ethnology and the animism of simple societies, in order to finally emphasize the differences between the scientific and literary evocation of contact with the non-human.