Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Human Development In Sacred Landscapes
Download Human Development In Sacred Landscapes full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Human Development In Sacred Landscapes ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis Human Development in Sacred Landscapes by : Lutz Käppel
Download or read book Human Development in Sacred Landscapes written by Lutz Käppel and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2015 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Holy Landscape" is a term frequently used to describe a multidimensional phenomenon. What this actually comprises is hard to define. Precisely this question is addressed in this volume. The "holy landscape" depends on people's Weltanschauung and is influenced by their respective culture and ethos. It is not just a question of religious buildings and rituals, nor is a mere matter of explicating terms such as "pure" and "impure", magic and myths; it is about an expressive space in which the "ceremony and mood of rites and cults" take place. The contributions also deal with the emergence and continuing development of the term "holy landscape" and the changing expressions of religious mood.
Book Synopsis Human Development in Sacred Landscapes by : Lutz Käppel
Download or read book Human Development in Sacred Landscapes written by Lutz Käppel and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conference was focused on the identification and interpretation of sacred areas principally – but not exclusively – in the ancient Greek world and in the study of Greek religious ideas or religious practice. For example: what did ancient Greece, from the Mesolithic onwards, look like, if it is possible to identify sacred areas on a landscape scale, like ancient Delos or modern Mount Athos, and if the sacred landscapes were differing from the countryside. Another paper offered a new understanding of the role of astronomical observations in the Delphic and Spartan landscapes, the performance of the religious sites in the Spartan sanctuary of Artemis Orthia and the operation of the Delphic oracle. Most of the contributions were directly connected with the cult of Apollo and the history and tradition of the famous sanctuary of Delphi. A different paper examined the treatment of Apollo's journey from Delos to Delphi described in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo. According to a further contributor the network formed by connections between sanctuaries was looser than political federation, but helps to explain why panhellenic sanctuaries were so central to the articulation of Greek identity.
Book Synopsis Sacred Landscapes and Cultural Politics by : Philip P. Arnold
Download or read book Sacred Landscapes and Cultural Politics written by Philip P. Arnold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people in different cultural worlds think about relationships with nature? How do religious ideas become formative of landscape? How can indigenous traditions inform current cultural debates? This book explores ways in which religious perceptions and cultural values affect our understandings of relationships with nature and our actions in and upon the environment. Drawing on sources in literature, sacred texts, intellectual history, oral traditions, rituals and anthropological practices, the authors speak of realities in and across world regions including Africa, India, Japan and the USA. Unwilling to reduce the power of symbolic, mythic and cosmological thought, the authors highlight the shifting, illusive and perplexing aspects of the relationship between cosmology and landscape. Examining the inter-penetration of religious, environmental, and economic realities, this book includes critically positioned voices of Indigenous people on the cultural politics of ecological recovery. The authors offer a significant contribution to contemporary debates in the study of religion, nature, indigeneity and the challenges to colonialism.
Book Synopsis Exploring the Sacred Landscape of the Ancient Peloponnese by : Eleni Marantou
Download or read book Exploring the Sacred Landscape of the Ancient Peloponnese written by Eleni Marantou and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the origins of the religious system of the Peloponnese to identify the factors behind its subsequent development from the Geometric to the Classical period. Through a presentation of cult places, the deities worshipped, and the epithets used, the book explores preferences for particular deities and the reasons for this.
Book Synopsis Sacred Landscapes by : Bryan C. Keene
Download or read book Sacred Landscapes written by Bryan C. Keene and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distant blue hills, soaring trees, vast cloudless skies—the majesty of nature has always had the power to lift the human spirit. For some it evokes a sense of timelessness and wonder. For others it reinforces religious convictions. And for many people today it raises concerns for the welfare of the planet. During the Renaissance, artists from Italy to Flanders and England to Germany depicted nature in their religious art to intensify the spiritual experience of the viewer. Devotional manuscripts for personal or communal use—from small-scale prayer books to massive choir books—were filled with some of the most illusionistic nature studies of this period. Sacred Landscapes, which accompanies an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, presents some of the most impressive examples of this art, gathering a wide range of illuminated manuscripts made between 1400 and 1600, as well as panel paintings, drawings, and decorative arts. Readers will see the influence of such masters as Albrecht Dürer, Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, and Piero della Francesca and will gain new appreciation for manuscript illuminators like Simon Bening, Joris Hoefnagel, Vincent Raymond, and the Spitz Master. These artists were innovative in the early development of landscape painting and were revered throughout the early modern period. The authors provide thoughtful examination of works from the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries.
Book Synopsis Cycladic Archaeology and Research: New Approaches and Discoveries by : Erica Angliker
Download or read book Cycladic Archaeology and Research: New Approaches and Discoveries written by Erica Angliker and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent excavations and new theoretical approaches are changing our view of the Cyclades. This volume aims to share these recent developments with a broader, international audience. Essays have been carefully selected as representing some of the most important recent work and include significant previously-unpublished material.
Book Synopsis The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom by : María de los Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras
Download or read book The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom written by María de los Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sacred Landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga during the New Kingdom, Ángeles Jiménez-Higueras offers the reconstruction of the physical, religious and cultural landscape of Dra Abu el-Naga south and its conceptual development from the 18th to the 20th Dynasties.
Book Synopsis Landscapes of the Sacred by : Belden C. Lane
Download or read book Landscapes of the Sacred written by Belden C. Lane and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This substantially expanded edition of Belden C. Lane's Landscapes of the Sacred includes a new introductory chapter that offers three new interpretive models for understanding American sacred space. Lane maintains his approach of interspersing shorter and more personal pieces among full-length essays that explore how Native American, early French and Spanish, Puritan New England, and Catholic Worker traditions has each expressed the connection between spirituality and place. A new section at the end of the book includes three chapters that address methodological issues in the study of spirituality, the symbol-making process of religious experience, and the tension between place and placelessness in Christian spirituality.
Author :Government of Sikkim Sikkim Human Development Report Cell Publisher :Routledge ISBN 13 :1351223763 Total Pages :169 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (512 download)
Book Synopsis Sikkim Human Development Report 2014 by : Government of Sikkim Sikkim Human Development Report Cell
Download or read book Sikkim Human Development Report 2014 written by Government of Sikkim Sikkim Human Development Report Cell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report brings together the findings of a decade-long field survey conducted in the Indian state of Sikkim. It outlines the interventions made by the state government in human development, biodiversity, gender equity, justice and other parameters. It also outlines Sikkim's efforts in achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
Book Synopsis Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity by : Ralph Haussler
Download or read book Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity written by Ralph Haussler and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behavior while it is often felt that deities responsible for both natural benefits and natural calamities (such as droughts, famines, floods and landslides) need to be appeased. We presume that, in many societies, lakes, rivers, rocks, mountains, caves and groves were considered sacred. Individual sites and entire landscapes are often associated with divine actions, mythical heroes and etiological myths. Throughout human history, people have also felt the need to monumentalize their sacred landscape. But this is where the similarities end as different societies had very different understandings, believes and practices. The aim of this new thematic appraisal is to scrutinize carefully our evidence and rethink our methodologies in a multi-disciplinary approach. More than 30 papers investigate diverse sacred landscapes from the Iberian peninsula and Britain in the west to China in the east. They discuss how to interpret the intricate web of ciphers and symbols in the landscape and how people might have experienced it. We see the role of performance, ritual, orality, textuality and memory in people’s sacred landscapes. A diachronic view allows us to study how landscapes were ‘rewritten’, adapted and redefined in the course of time to suit new cultural, political and religious understandings, not to mention the impact of urbanism on people’s understandings. A key question is how was the landscape manipulated, transformed and monumentalized – especially the colossal investments in monumental architecture we see in certain socio-historic contexts or the creation of an alternative humanmade, seemingly ‘non-natural’ landscape, with perfectly astronomically aligned buildings that define a cosmological order? Sacred Landscapes therefore aims to analyze the complex links between landscape, ‘religiosity’ and society, developing a dialectic framework that explores sacred landscapes across the ancient world in a dynamic, holistic, contextual and historical perspective.
Download or read book Markings written by Maria Reiche and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earth is marked with the traces of man's ancient past, and Marilyn Bridges's photographs reveal the spiritual forces inherent in our ancestral creations. Her exploration highlights the mysterious Nazca lines painstakingly scored two thousand years ago onto a Peruvian desert landscape the sacred temples and pyramids of the Maya, deep in the Yucatan jungle the enigmatic earthworks of ancient North American Indians and the colossal prehistoric temple of Stonehenge. Taken from daringly low altitudes, Bridges's aerial photographs pose profound questions about the relationship of human culture and the natural world. Essays by Haven O'More, director of the Institute of Traditional Science, Lucy Lippard, and other leading thinkers lend insight into the quest to uncover lost knowledge of the creation of these mysterious markings.
Book Synopsis Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural by : Matthias Egeler
Download or read book Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural written by Matthias Egeler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first study to tackle the relationship between landscape and religion in-depth. Author Matthias Egeler overviews previous theories of the relationship between landscape and religion and then pushes this theorizing further with a rich case study: the supernatural landscape of the Icelandic Westfjords. There, religion and the supernatural--from churches to elf hills--are ubiquitous in the landscape and, as Egeler shows, this example sheds entirely new light on core aspects of the relationship between landscape, religion, and the supernatural.
Book Synopsis Exploring Sacred Landscapes by : Mary Lou Randour
Download or read book Exploring Sacred Landscapes written by Mary Lou Randour and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Exploring sacred landscapes 2. Countertransference and transference aspects of religious material in psychotherapy: The isolation or integration of religious material 3. Ministry or therapy: The role of transference and countertransference in a religious therapist 4. The use of religiou simagery for psychological structuralization 5. Myth and symbol as expressions of the religious 6. Religious imagery in the clinical context: Access to compassion toward the self - illusion or truth 7. The transcendent moment and the analytic hour 8. Concluding clinical postscript: On developing a psychotheological perspective 9. Psychology and spirituality: Forgoing a new relationship.
Book Synopsis Land and Temple by : Benjamin D. Gordon
Download or read book Land and Temple written by Benjamin D. Gordon and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of the Judean priesthood’s role in agricultural cultivation demonstrates that the institutional reach of Second Temple Judaism (516 BCE–70 CE) went far beyond the confines of its houses of worship, while exposing an unfamiliar aspect of sacred place-making in the ancient Jewish experience. Temples of the ancient world regularly held assets in land, often naming a patron deity as landowner and affording the land sanctity protections. Such arrangements can provide essential background to the Hebrew Bible’s assertion that God is the owner of the land of Israel. They can also shed light on references in early Jewish literature to the sacred landholdings of the priesthood or the temple.
Book Synopsis A Sacred Landscape by : Hugh Thomson
Download or read book A Sacred Landscape written by Hugh Thomson and published by . This book was released on 2007-06-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author takes the reader on a journey back from the world of the Incas to the first dawn of Andean civilization.
Book Synopsis Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces by : Miroslav Bárta
Download or read book Profane Landscapes, Sacred Spaces written by Miroslav Bárta and published by New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology. This book was released on 2019 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Herodotus, it has been observed that Egypt - that is, ancient Egyptian civilisation - was a gift of the Nile. However, only recently have Egyptologists come to appreciate that Egypt was as much a gift of the desert as a gift of the water, at least as regards its very beginnings. To understand the civilisation that originally settled along the Nile Valley and in the Delta, we must study not only the remains of ancient monuments, excavated artefacts and reconstructed texts, but take proper account of the landscape, conditions and environment that shaped Egypt's culture, religion and ideology. This volume addresses various aspects of how the world was perceived in the minds of Egyptians, and how Egyptians subsequently reshaped their surrounding landscape in harmony with their view of geography and cosmological ideas. Profane landscape and sacred space thus blend into one multi-faceted concept.
Book Synopsis Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity by :
Download or read book Valuing Landscape in Classical Antiquity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valuing Landscape explores how physical environments affected the cultural imagination of Greco-Roman Antiquity. It demonstrates the values attached to mountains, the underworld, sacred landscapes, and battlefields, and the evaluations of locale connected with migration, exile, and travel.
