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Mecca

Author : Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620402688
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Mecca written by Ziauddin Sardar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mecca is, for many, the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction to which Muslims turn when they pray, and the site of pilgrimage that annually draws some three million Muslims from all corners of the world. Yet the significance of Mecca is more than purely religious. What happens in Mecca and how Muslims think about the political and cultural history of Mecca has had and continues to have a profound influence on world events to this day. In this insighful book, Ziauddin Sardar unravels the meaning and significance of Mecca. Tracing its history, from its origins as a “barren valley” in the desert to its evolution as a trading town and sudden emergence as the religious center of a world empire, Sardar examines the religious struggles and rebellions in Mecca that have significantly shaped Muslim culture. An illuminative, lyrical, and witty blend of history, reportage, and memoir, Mecca reflects all that is profound and enlightening, curious and amusing about Mecca and takes us behind the closed doors to one of the most important places in the world today.

Sex and the Sacred City

Author : Steven Kellmeyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971812819
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Sex and the Sacred City written by Steven Kellmeyer and published by . This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indeholder: Introduction. The Trinity. Creation. The Fall. The Incarnation. The Sacraments. Married Life. Celibacy. Family Life. Conclusion.

Sacred Civics

Author : Jayne Engle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000601358
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Civics written by Jayne Engle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature. The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a range of backgrounds to question assumptions that are fused deep into the code of how societies operate, and to draw on extraordinary wisdom from ancient Indigenous traditions; to social and political movements like Black Lives Matter, the commons, and wellbeing economies; to technologies for participatory futures where people collaborate to reimagine and change culture. Looking at cities and human settlements as the sites of transformation, the book focuses on values, commons, and wisdom to demonstrate that how we choose to live together, to recognize interdependencies, to build, grow, create, and love—matters. Using multiple methodologies to integrate varied knowledge forms and practices, this truly ground-breaking volume includes contributions from renowned and rising voices. Sacred Civics is a must-read for anyone interested in intersectional discussions on social justice, inclusivity, participatory design, healthy communities, and future cities.

The Sacred in the City

Author : Liliana Gómez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144118810X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred in the City written by Liliana Gómez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects the way in which the city interacts with the sacred in all its many guises, with religion and the human search for meaning in life. As the process of urbanization of society is accelerating thus giving an increasing importance to cities and the 'metropolis', it is relevant to investigate the social or cultural cohesion that these urban agglomerations manifest. Religion is keenly observed as witnessing a growth, crucially impacting cultural and political dynamics, as well as determining the emergence of new sacred symbols and their inscription in urban spaces worldwide. The sacred has become an important category of a new interpretation of social and cultural transformation processes. From a unique broader perspective, the volume focuses on the relationship between the city and the sacred. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, combining the expertise of philosophers, historians, architects, social geographers, sociologists and anthropologists, it draws a nuanced picture of the different layers of religion, of the sacred and its diverse forms within the city, with examples from Europe, South America and the Caribbean, and Africa.

The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain

Author : Antonio Cordoba
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137600209
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred and Modernity in Urban Spain written by Antonio Cordoba and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how modernity, the urban, and the sacred overlap in fundamental ways in contemporary Spain. Urban spaces have traditionally been seen as the original sites of modernity, history, progress, and a Weberian systematic disenchantment of the world, while the sacred has been linked to the natural, the rural, mythical past origins, and exemption from historical change. This collection problematizes such clear-cut distinctions as overlaps between the modern urban and the sacred in Spanish culture are explored throughout the volume. Placed in the periphery of Europe, Spain has had a complex relationship with the concept of modernity and commonly understood processes of modernization and secularization, thus offering a unique case-study of the interaction between the modern and the sacred in the city.

Sacred High City, Sacred Low City

Author : Steven Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199861447
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Sacred High City, Sacred Low City written by Steven Heine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that lived religion in Japan functions as an integral part of daily life; any apparent lack of interest masks a fundamental commitment to participating regularly in diverse, though diffused, religious practices. The book uses case studies of religious sites at two representative but contrasting Tokyo neighborhoods as a basis for reflecting on this apparently contradictory quality.

The Fifth Sacred Thing

Author : Starhawk
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307477657
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Fifth Sacred Thing written by Starhawk and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic tale of freedom and slavery, love and war, and the potential futures of humankind tells of a twenty-first century California clan caught between two clashing worlds, one based on tolerance, the other on repression. Declaration of the Four Sacred Things The earth is a living, conscious being. In company with cultures of many different times and places, we name these things as sacred: air, fire, water, and earth. Whether we see them as the breath, energy, blood, and body of the Mother, or as the blessed gifts of a Creator, or as symbols of the interconnected systems that sustain life, we know that nothing can live without them. To call these things sacred is to say that they have a value beyond their usefulness for human ends, that they themselves became the standards by which our acts, our economics, our laws, and our purposes must be judged. no one has the right to appropriate them or profit from them at the expense of others. Any government that fails to protect them forfeits its legitimacy. All people, all living things, are part of the earth life, and so are sacred. No one of us stands higher or lower than any other. Only justice can assure balance: only ecological balance can sustain freedom. Only in freedom can that fifth sacred thing we call spirit flourish in its full diversity. To honor the sacred is to create conditions in which nourishment, sustenance, habitat, knowledge, freedom, and beauty can thrive. To honor the sacred is to make love possible. To this we dedicate our curiosity, our will, our courage, our silences, and our voices. To this we dedicate our lives. Praise for The Fifth Sacred Thing “This is wisdom wrapped in drama.”—Tom Hayden, California state senator “Starhawk makes the jump to fiction quite smoothly with this memorable first novel.”—Locus “Totally captivating . . . a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.”—Elinor Gadon, author of The Once and Future Goddess “This strong debut fits well against feminist futuristic, utopic, and dystopic works by the likes of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Ursula LeGuin, and Margaret Atwood.”—Library Journal

The Sacred City of the Hindus

Author : Matthew Atmore Sherring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sacred City of the Hindus written by Matthew Atmore Sherring and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sacred City

Author : Theodore C. Van Alst
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826362877
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Sacred City written by Theodore C. Van Alst and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chicago: home to urban Indians and immigrants and working folks and the whole gamut of people getting by in a world that doesn’t care whether they do so or not. Sacred City is an incomparable follow-up to Van Alst’s award-winning debut collection, Sacred Smokes. Our young narrator now heads deeper into the heart of the city and himself, accompanied by ancestors and spirits who help him and the reader see that Chicago was, is, and always will be Indian Country. Part love song and part lament, Sacred City explores what options are available to an intelligent, smart-assed young man who was born poor and grew up in a gang. Van Alst’s skillful storytelling takes us on a journey where Chicago will never seem the same.

The Sacred in the City

Author : Liliana Gómez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441172955
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Sacred in the City written by Liliana Gómez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of (post-)secularized and modernized societies to define the state of the sacred today and to decipher its different forms within the city.

Homer and the Sacred City

Author : Stephen Scully
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801482021
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Homer and the Sacred City written by Stephen Scully and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of the polis in Homeric literature is most evident in the Iliad, a poem concerned in large measure with the holy city of Troy. Stephen Scully here deepens our understanding of both the poetic and the social significance of the city in Homer through a close analysis of the poem's formulaic language. Drawing on scholarship in literary studies, archaeology, and comparative religion, Scully demonstrates that it is the urban setting of the Iliad, as well as the collision of the individual fates of its characters, which generates its most profound tragic themes.

Sacred Space in the Modern City

Author : Yoshiko Imaizumi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004254188
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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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.

The Politics of Sacred Space

Author : Michael Dumper
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781588262264
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Sacred Space written by Michael Dumper and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dumper explores how religious and political interests compete for control of the Old City of Jerusalem, and how this competition affects the Middle East conflict as a whole.

Sacred Smokes

Author : Theodore C. Van Alst
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826359914
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Smokes written by Theodore C. Van Alst and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up in a gang in the city can be dark. Growing up Native American in a gang in Chicago is a whole different story. This book takes a trip through that unexplored part of Indian Country, an intense journey that is full of surprises, shining a light on the interior lives of people whose intellectual and emotional concerns are often overlooked. This dark, compelling, occasionally inappropriate, and often hilarious linked story collection introduces a character who defies all stereotypes about urban life and Indians. He will be in readers’ heads for a long time to come.

The Spiritual Traveler

Author : Edward F. Bergman
Publisher : Hidden Spring
ISBN 13 : 9781587680038
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Spiritual Traveler written by Edward F. Bergman and published by Hidden Spring. This book was released on 2001 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to sacred sites and sacred spaces in New York City, written from a multi-faith and multicultural point of view. Includes many major historical, cultural and architectural sites, as well as lesser known sites of interest.

Sacred Places of a Lifetime

Author : National Geographic
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426203367
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Places of a Lifetime written by National Geographic and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A listing of five hundred sites new and old, famous and unknown, that have been used to connect humanity with its gods.

The Neighborhood of Gods

Author : William Elison
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022649490X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book The Neighborhood of Gods written by William Elison and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually considered one of them. More popular images of the city capture the world’s collective imagination—as a Bollywood fantasia or a slumland dystopia. Yet for many, if not most, people who live in the city, the neighborhood streets are indeed shared with local gods and guardian spirits. In The Neighborhood of Gods, William Elison examines the link between territory and divinity in India’s most self-consciously modern city. In this densely settled environment, space is scarce, and anxiety about housing is pervasive. Consecrating space—first with impromptu displays and then, eventually, with full-blown temples and official recognition—is one way of staking a claim. But how can a marginalized community make its gods visible, and therefore powerful, in the eyes of others? The Neighborhood of Gods explores this question, bringing an ethnographic lens to a range of visual and spatial practices: from the shrine construction that encroaches on downtown streets, to the “tribal art” practices of an indigenous group facing displacement, to the work of image production at two Bollywood film studios. A pioneering ethnography, this book offers a creative intervention in debates on postcolonial citizenship, urban geography, and visuality in the religions of India.