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Author : Silvia Battista
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781789383874
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (838 download)
Download or read book The Performances of Sacred Spaces written by Silvia Battista and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : 'BioDun J. Ogundayo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498567436
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book African Sacred Spaces written by 'BioDun J. Ogundayo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Louis P. Nelson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253218225
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)
Download or read book American Sanctuary written by Louis P. Nelson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Nancy DeMott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1566995477
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Holy Places written by Nancy DeMott and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-11-19 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building communicate. Stained glass windows, high altars, multi-purpose worship/gymnasium spaces, Plexiglas pulpits, padded pews--these and all other architectural elements say something about a congregation's theology and mission. They point to a faith community's beliefs about worship, identity, purpose, and more. From the stark simplicity of a Quaker meetinghouse to the splendor of a Romanesque Revival building, sacred spaces speak loudly. What they say can either reinforce a congregation's mission or detract from it. Holy Places is designed to be used by congregations who are involved in or are contemplating work on their facilities. This could include renovation, remodeling, expansion, or building. No matter how extensive the project, approaching the work with mission at the forefront is the key to having a final result that strengthens the congregation's ministry. The process outlined in this book--discern, decide, do--lets congregations begin where they are and provides the help they need to move to the next level.
Author : Kiran Shinde
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3036518673
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Sacred Sites, Rituals, and Performances written by Kiran Shinde and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conceptual territory of religious tourism is fluid. While recreation and leisure-based motivation and behaviors are evident in religious tourism, this volume reiterates its rootedness in tenets from religious traditions and pilgrimages. Using fresh perspectives on place-stories, rituals, performances, that are central to pilgrimage and sacred sites, essays in this volume explain contemporary expressions of religious tourism and illustrate the dynamic nature of religious tourism as an ecosystem embedded in religious practices, rituals and performances. The explanations will benefit researchers and practioners alike and they can find numerous examples that show the significance of religious tourism for sustainable development of destinations.
Author : David Chidester
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253210067
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)
Download or read book American Sacred Space written by David Chidester and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995-11-22 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Yoshiko Imaizumi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004254188
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Sacred Space in the Modern City written by Yoshiko Imaizumi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Space in the Modern City offers strikingly new and original perspectives on a number of controversial issues and important questions concerning Japanese pre- and post-war ideology and identity. Meiji shrine is not just ‘a’ shrine; it is ‘the’ shrine of twentieth-century Japan. This book is also noteworthy on account of its use of previously untouched archival materials as well as for its broad range of theoretical approaches applied within a multidisciplinary context. The author uses Meiji shrine as a lens with which to investigate the nature of the society that created, experienced and reproduced this site. This long-overdue study will be widely welcomed by researchers interested in Shinto and Meiji Japan, as well as the wider readership wishing to access the social history of Taisho and early Showa Japan.
Author : M. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230616178
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Religion, Culture, and Sacred Space written by M. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion, Culture, and Sacred Spaces is a comparative exploration into the nature of the human relationship to physical space advancing the startling thesis that the human capacity for narrative and identity imbues landscapes with meaning and sacredness.
Author : Elaine A. Pena
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520948807
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Performing Piety written by Elaine A. Pena and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-06-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Virgin of Guadalupe, though quintessentially Mexican, inspires devotion throughout the Americas and around the world. This study sheds new light on the long-standing transnational dimensions of Guadalupan worship by examining the production of sacred space in three disparate but interconnected locations—at the sacred space known as Tepeyac in Mexico City, at its replica in Des Plaines, Illinois, and at a sidewalk shrine constructed by Mexican nationals in Chicago. Weaving together rich on-the-ground observations with insights drawn from performance studies, Elaine A. Peña demonstrates how devotees’ rituals—pilgrimage, prayers, and festivals—develop, sustain, and legitimize these sacred spaces. Interdisciplinary in scope, Performing Piety paints a nuanced picture of the lived experience of Guadalupan devotion in which different forms of knowing, socio-economic and political coping tactics, conceptions of history, and faith-based traditions circulate within and between sacred spaces.
Author : Margaret Silf
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
ISBN 13 : 9781459663503
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Sacred Spaces: Stations on a Celtic Way (Large Print 16pt) written by Margaret Silf and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : John Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443806420
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Sacred Space written by John Matthews and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The identification and positioning of sacred space within contemporary contexts has, to date, received scant attention. In reflecting upon a broad spectrum of conceptions of what constitutes sacred space, this collection of interdisciplinary essays presents a new perspective on an area that is developing into an important theological and philosophical concept.
Author : Jenn Cianca
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773554254
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Sacred Ritual, Profane Space written by Jenn Cianca and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three centuries of Christianity are increasingly seen in modern scholarship as sites of complexity. Sacred Ritual, Profane Space examines the Christian meeting places of the time and overturns long-held notions about the earliest Christians as utopian rather than place-bound people. By mapping what is known from early Christian texts onto the archaeological data for Roman domestic spaces, Jenn Cianca provides a new lens for examining the relationship between early Christianity and sites of worship. She proposes that not only were Roman homes sacred sites in their own right but they were also considered sacred by the Christian communities that used them. In many cases, meeting space would have included the presence of the Roman domestic cult shrines. Despite the fact that the domestic cult was polytheistic, Cianca asserts that its practices likely continued in places used for worship by Christians. She also argues that continued practice of the domestic cult in Roman domestic spaces did not preclude Christians from using houses as churches or from understanding their rituals or their meeting places as sacred. Raising a host of questions about identity, ritual affiliation, and domestic practice, Sacred Ritual, Profane Space demonstrates how sacred space was constructed through ritual enactment in early Christian communities.
Author : John W. Welch
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532635230
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Sacred Space, Sacred Thread written by John W. Welch and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insightful studies contained in this book will be of significant value to anyone interested in experiencing more deeply the intersections between materiality and spirituality. Part 1 introduces readers into Egyptian, Israelite, Christian, and Hindu temples, shrines, or sanctuaries. Part 2 helps readers understand how items of colored fabrics, clothing, robes, and veils, convey ritual meanings. Part 3 reports two panel discussions that exemplify the pathway of fruitful conversation. Matter and spirit might seem to some to be polar opposites. But as these studies by distinguished and diverse scholars demonstrate, spiritual experiences are constructively defined and refined within the coordinates of place and time. Sacred space, as well as sacred cloth, define borders, but not necessarily boundaries, between the sacred and the profane. These material coordinates physically enclose and also spiritually disclose. They both symbolize and synergize, as they encompass and expansively inspire. These original and enjoyable presentations will help all readers to hold tenaciously to the tenets and also the tensions inherent in physical spiritual experiences.
Author : Susan Suntree
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149622034X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Sacred Sites written by Susan Suntree and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history that is equal parts science and mythology, Sacred Sites offers a rare and poetic vision of a world composed of dynamic natural forces and mythic characters. The result is a singular and memorable account of the evolution of the Southern California landscape, reflecting the riches of both Native knowledge and Western scientific thought. Beginning with Western science, poet Susan Suntree carries readers from the Big Bang to the present as she describes the origins of the universe, the shifting of tectonic plates, and an evolving array of plants and animals that give Southern California its unique features today. She tells of the migration of humans into the region, where they settled, and how they lived. Complementing this narrative and reflecting Native peoples' view of their own history and way of life, Suntree recounts the creation myths and songs that tell the story of the First People and of unforgettable shamans and heroes. Featuring contemporary photographs of rarely seen landmarks along with meticulous research, Sacred Sites provides unusual insight into how natural history and mythology and scientific and intuitive thinking combine to create an ever-deepening sense of a place and its people.
Author : Erik Kristiansen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 8763542005
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Engaging Spaces written by Erik Kristiansen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All performances - whether music, theater, visual arts, or even street protests or games — have this in common: they happen somewhere, within a space. This anthology explores the complicated relationship between performance and the space in which it is hosted. Examining both well-known spaces — such as concert halls or stages — as well as unconventional ones, such as the street, the contributors investigate different conceptions of space, how space is experienced, how different spaces are unique from one another, and, ultimately, the ways space enables the performing arts to deeply engage audiences.
Author : Laura Varnam
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526121824
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture written by Laura Varnam and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an exciting new approach to the medieval church by examining the role of literary texts, visual decorations, ritual performance and lived experience in the production of sanctity. The meaning of the church was intensely debated in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This book explores what was at stake not only for the church’s sanctity but for the identity of the parish community as a result. Focusing on pastoral material used to teach the laity, it shows how the church’s status as a sacred space at the heart of the congregation was dangerously – but profitably – dependent on lay practice. The sacred and profane were inextricably linked and, paradoxically, the church is shown to thrive on the sacrilegious challenge of lay misbehaviour and sin.
Author : Thomas Coomans
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9058678423
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Loci Sacri written by Thomas Coomans and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. This volume explores both the cultural developments that have shaped them and their varied multidimensional levels of significance.
