Celeste Ray is Professor of Environmental Arts and Humanities at the University of the South, USA. She is the author of The Origins of Ireland's Holy Wells and Highland Heritage: Scottish Americans in the American South, and the editor of volumes considering ethnicity and historical ecology.

Holy Wells and Sacred Springs, Celeste Ray; Part 1: Ancient Influences; Chapter 1: Fons et Origo: Observations on Sacred Springs in Classical Antiquity and Traditions, Christopher M. McDonough; Chapter 2: Water Sources and the Sacred in Modern and Ancient Greece, Evy Johanne Håland; Chapter 3: Life and Death from the Watery Underworld: Ancient Maya Interaction with Caves and Cenotes, Nicholas Dunning; Part 2: Stewarding Curative Waters and Caring for Pilgrims; Chapter 4: "Go Drink from the Spring and Wash There": The Healing Waters of Lourdes, Michael Agnew; Chapter 5: The Well of Zamzam: A Pilgrimage Site and Curative Water in Islam, Ahmad Ghabin; Chapter 6: Sacrality, Waterfront Sacred Places in India: Myths and the Making of Place, Rana P.B. Singh; Part 3: Genii Loci and Ancestors; Chapter 7: Freshwater Sources and their Relational Contexts in Indigenous Australia: Views from the Past and Present, Liam Brady; Chapter 8: Inca Shrines: Deities in Stone and Water, Marco Curatola Petrocchi; Chapter 9: Dragon Wells and Sacred Springs in China, Jean DeBernardi, Yan Jie and Ma Junhong; Chapter 10: The Sacred Springs of the Tewa Pueblos, New Mexico, Richard Ford; Part 4: Temporal Powers, Social Identity and Sacred Geography; Chapter 11: Divine waters in Ethiopia: The Source from Heaven and Indigenous Water-Worlds in the Lake Tana Region, Terje Oestigaard and Gedef Abawa Firew; Chapter 12 : Ori Aiye: A Holy Well among the Ondo in Southeastern Yorubaland, Nigeria, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi and Ajisola Omojeje; Chapter 13: Sacred Wells of Banaras: Glorifications, Ritual Practices and Healing, Vera Lazzaretti; Chapter 14: Yaksut¿: Korean Sacred Mineral Spring Water, Hong-key Yoon; Chapter 15: Sacred Hierarchy, Festival Cycles and Water Veneration at Chalma in Central Mexico, Ramiro Gómez Arzapalo Dorantes; Part 5: Medieval Europe; Chapter 16: Between Fons and Foundation: Managing a French Holy Well in the Miracula Sancti Theoderici, Kate M. Craig; Chapter 17: Finnaun y Doudec Seint: A Holy Spring in Early Medieval Brycheiniog, Wales, Andy Seaman; Chapter 18: Gvendarbrunnur of Medieval Iceland, Margaret Cormack; Part 6: Contested and Shared Sites; Chapter 19: A Higher Level of Immersion: A Contemporary Freshwater Mikvah Pool in Israel, Robert Phillips; Chapter 20: Waters at the Edge: Sacred Springs and Spatiality in Southwest Finnish Village Landscapes, John Björkman; Chapter 21: Memory and Martyrs: Holy Springs in Western Siberia, Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby; Chapter 22: Sacred and Healing Springs in the Republic of Macedonia, Snežana Filipova; Chapter 23: Water Sanctuaries of Hatay, Turkey, Jens Kreinath; Part 7: Sacred Waterfalls; Chapter 24: Sacred Waters of Haitian Vodou: The Pilgrimage of Sodo, Elizabeth McAlister; Chapter 25: The Olympic Mountains and the Sacrality of Water in the Klallam World, Cailín Murray; Chapter 26: Back into the Light: Water and the Indigenous Uncanny in Northeastern Japan, Ellen Schattschneider; Part 8: Popular Pieties; Chapter 27: With Sacred Springs, without Holy Wells: the Case of Estonia, Heiki Valk; Chapter 28: Holy Wells of Wychwood Forest, England, Martin Haigh; Chapter 29: Holy Wells and Trees in Poland as an Element of Local and National Identity, Wojciech Bedy¿ski; Chapter 30: Visiting Holy Wells in Seventeenth-Century Sweden: The Case of St. Ingemo's Well in Dala, Terese Zachrisson; Chapter 31: The Buddha's Thumb, N¿ga Legends, and Blessings of Health: Sacred Water and Religious Practice in Thailand, Rachelle M. Scott; Part 9: Hydrology, Stewardship and Biocultural Heritage; Chapter 32: At the End of the Field, a Pot of Nemunai is Boiling: A Study of Lithuanian Springs, Vykintas Vaitkevi¿ius; Chapter 33: Hydrogeological Characteristics of Irish Holy Wells, Bruce Misstear, Laurence Gill, Cora McKenna and Ronan Foley; Chapter 34: The Holy Springs of Russia's Orel Region: Traditions of Place and Environmental Care, Jane Costlow; Chapter 35: Sentient Springs and Sources of Life: Water, Climate Change and World-Making Practices in the Andes, Astrid B. Stensrud; Chapter 36: Cures, Flora and Fauna: Ireland's Holy Wells as Sites of Biocultural Diversity, Celeste Ray