Sacred Places Emerging Spaces
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Sacred Places Emerging Spaces
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Author : Tsypylma Darieva
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2018-02-19
Sacred Places Emerging Spaces written by Tsypylma Darieva and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-19 with Religion categories.
Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with religious conviviality. Based on fresh ethnographies in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Russian Federation, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus. In exploring the effects of de-secularization, growing institutional control over hybrid sacred sites, and attempts to review social boundaries between the religious and the secular, these essays give way to an emergent Caucasus viewed from the ground up: dynamic, continually remaking itself, within shifting and indefinite frontiers.
Queer Spiritual Spaces
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Author : Kath Browne
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Queer Spiritual Spaces written by Kath Browne and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with Social Science categories.
Drawn from extensive, new and rich empirical research across the UK, Canada and USA, Queer Spiritual Spaces investigates the contemporary socio-cultural practices of belief, by those who have historically been, and continue to be, excluded or derided by mainstream religions and alternative spiritualities. As the first monograph to be directly informed by 'queer' subjectivities whilst dealing with divergent spiritualities on an international scale, this book explores the recently emerging innovative spaces and integrative practices of queer spiritualities. Its breadth of coverage and keen critical engagement mean it will serve as a theoretically fertile, comprehensive entry point for any scholar wishing to explore the queer spiritual spaces of the twenty-first century.
Sacred Spaces
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Author : Margaret Silf
language : en
Publisher: Lion Books
Release Date : 2014-05-15
Sacred Spaces written by Margaret Silf and has been published by Lion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with Religion categories.
There are many books that explore actual, physical, sacred space and pilgrimage sites. This is a different kind of book. It introduces seven traditional 'sacred spaces' but then leads readers into a deeper reflection on what such 'sacred space' means in our own lives and experience. The various sacred spaces explored are: the Celtic Cross; the infinite knot; hilltops; wells and springs; causeways and bridges; thresholds and burial grounds; and boundaries. In each chapter, the author introduces a 'sacred space' as the main theme and then illustrates this by associating it with a particular stage of life and a particular sacramental experience. The ideas are then brought together by means of a scripture story.
Creating Sacred Spaces For Communities
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Author : Samuel Welsh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-12-01
Creating Sacred Spaces For Communities written by Samuel Welsh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-01 with Architecture categories.
Drawing on lessons from the past, this book takes construction and architecture into a whole new dimension. New age teacher Samuel Welsh, reveals the secrets of the ancient builders of such sacred places as Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, and the pyramids. He shows how techniques used to build ancient churches and monuments can be applied today to create sacred spaces in our homes and in our communities. Sacred space brings grace, harmony, and joy to those within it. But it offers tangible benefits as well. Environments that carry sacred energies have long been known to enhance quality of life, improve health, and increase longevity. Many of the techniques described in this book are intended for those involved in building design and construction such as architects, land use planners, and community developers. Yet, because most of these approaches are simple enough to be used on a smaller scale, Welsh explains in simple terms how anyone can create sacred spaces that bring peace and serenity into their hectic life. He includes step-by-step suggestions for designing sacred spaces on a more intimate scale such as quiet retreats, meditation rooms, and spaces to enjoy creative activities.
African Sacred Spaces
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Author : 'BioDun J. Ogundayo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
African Sacred Spaces written by 'BioDun J. Ogundayo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Africa, Sub-Saharan categories.
This book focuses on space in African and Black religion and spirituality through the lenses of area studies, African and black diaspora studies, history and culture, cultural studies, ecotourism, environmentalism, and sustainability.
American Sacred Space
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Author : David Chidester
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1995-11-22
American Sacred Space written by David Chidester and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-11-22 with Religion categories.
In a series of pioneering studies, this book examines the creation—and the conflict behind the creation—of sacred space in America. The essays in this volume visit places in America where economic, political, and social forces clash over the sacred and the profane, from wilderness areas in the American West to the Mall in Washington, D.C., and they investigate visions of America as sacred space at home and abroad. Here are the beginnings of a new American religious history—told as the story of the contested spaces it has inhabited. The contributors are David Chidester, Matthew Glass, Edward T. Linenthal, Colleen McDannell, Robert S. Michaelsen, Rowland A. Sherrill, and Bron Taylor.
Sacred Spaces And Urban Networks
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Author : Suzan Yalman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03
Sacred Spaces And Urban Networks written by Suzan Yalman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03 with Sacred space categories.
With its history that goes back millennia, Anatolia is studded with sites from different eras that are deemed "sacred." The collected essays in this volume present diachronic and synchronic studies of Anatolian sacred sites from the medieval period onward that situate them within various spatial, urban, and sociocultural dynamics. Each article explores unique case studies that illustrate the role of human agency in the creative process of transforming awe-inspiring sites into sacred spaces. Collectively, the volume reveals that the magnetic qualities of such destinations create a web of sanctity, as well as a complicated matrix of economic, political, and social relations. The scholarly contributions published here emerged from the 11th International ANAMED Annual symposium, entitled "Sacred Spaces + Urban Networks" and held at Istanbul's Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) in December 2016. This symposium brought together prominent scholars in the field and former fellows of the research center, including the volume's editors. While our initial goal was to explore different layers of sacredness in Anatolia, ultimately, the volume sheds light on parallels among case studies and presents the connectedness between these layers.
American Sanctuary
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Author : Louis P. Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2006
American Sanctuary written by Louis P. Nelson and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Religion categories.
This volume examines a diverse set of spaces and buildings seen through the lens of popular practice and belief to shed light on the complexities of sacred space in America. Contributors explore how dedication sermons document shifting understandings of the meetinghouse in early 19th-century Connecticut; the changes in evangelical church architecture during the same century and what that tells us about evangelical religious life; the impact of contemporary issues on Catholic church architecture; the impact of globalization on the construction of traditional sacred spaces; the urban practice of Jewish space; nature worship and Central Park in New York; the mezuzah and domestic sacred space; and, finally, the spiritual aspects of African American yard art.
Sacred Places In Modern Western Culture
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Author : Paul Post
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Sacred Places In Modern Western Culture written by Paul Post and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Civilization, Western categories.
Sacred spaces in contemporary Western culture are subject to a dynamics in which the traditional forms of ritual are increasingly marginalised and new forms emerge. In Western Europe churches are growing empty, whereas new rituals - for instance those surrounding the victims of violence - are gaining prominence and are mediatized in a variety of ways. The destruction of churches, the rise of increasingly multi-religious urban ritual spaces, the remarkable vitality of places of pilgrimage and war cemeteries and the growing popularity of lieux de memoire in general show the changing landscapes of ritual spaces in modern Western culture.This book aims at describing and analyzing the profound changes and developments that are presently taking place. In the main part of this volume the broad field of ritual spaces is explored in contributions on various modern 'sacred places'. The case studies range from traditional places of religious worship, to the Rothko Chapel in Houston, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Berlin Holocaust Memorial; from the Tor Tre Teste Millenium Church in Rome to the Columbine School Shooting Memorial in Colorado, the memorials for Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh and virtual ritual sites. The dynamics of ritual space is further explored in various in-depth essays on the dynamics of space and ritual, musealisation and memorial culture.
Sacred Places And Profane Spaces
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Author : Jamie S. Scott
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1991-09-30
Sacred Places And Profane Spaces written by Jamie S. Scott and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-09-30 with Religion categories.
The editors and contributors to this pioneering volume have focused the lense of geography on new territory as they inquire critically into the spatial dimensions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, making this interdisciplinary project truly a new idea in the study of comparative religion and human geography. Editors Jamie Scott and Paul Simpson-Housley have organized the study into three broad areas of inquiry and have coined the term Geographics to encompass the three distinct yet interrelated spatial dimensions implicated in the study of religion. The first area concerns the literal role played by specific sites, regions, or geographical phenomena in the development of the three religions. The focus here is on city, wilderness, river valley, and mountain as well as flood, earthquake, whirlwind, and famine with attention devoted to methodological, epistemological, and ontological issues. The symbolic or interpreted role played by these same specific entities in the three religions is the second notion to be explored. The third focus is an inquiry into the geography of prophetic and apocalyptic visions and the role of geographical imagination in the development of religious self-understanding. This interface of natural and historical geography with the geography of the prophetic and apocalyptic imagination produces a graphic, sometimes terrifying landscape. The volume's nine essayists have approached their chapters with this threefold schematization in mind so that the book consists of one study devoted to each of these dimensions in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, as well as an introduction and afterword by the editors. Each essay discusses the relationship of the spatial and the sacred in scripture and in subsequent literary and theological reflection upon scriptural themes. The range of topics and variety of approaches used reflect the interpretive ambiguities that stem from the unique social, political, and economic functions conferred on places and spaces of particular significance in the life and thought of a religious tradition or community. The section on Judaism explores Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine; the Temple Mount al-haram al-sharif; and the Garden of Eden. Indepth looks at Finland, women's geography, and the apocalyptic world comprise the section on Christianity. Iranian feasting and pilgrimage circuits, modern Egypt, and sacred geography are assessed in the final section on Islam. This carefully edited, innovative study offers a unique approach to the study of religion and will be read profitably by scholars and students of religion and geography.