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- Description
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 581 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience? This handbook brings together thirty-seven authors addressing these questions, using a range of methods to analyze specific spaces or types of spaces around the world and across time. Their methods are grounded in many disciplines: religious studies and religion, anthropology, archaeology, architectural history and architecture, cultural and religious history, sociology, gender and women's studies, geography, and political science, resulting in a distinctly interdisciplinary collection. These essays are snapshots, each offering a specific way to think about the religious space(s) under consideration: Roman shrines, Jewish synagogues, Christian churches, Muslim and Catholic shrines, indigenous spaces in Central America and East Africa, cemeteries, memorials, and others. They are organized here by geographical region rather than tradition, to emphasized the cultural roots of religion and religious spaces. Several overarching principles emerge from these snapshots. The authors demonstrate that religious spaces are simultaneously individual and collective, personal, and social; that they are influenced by culture, tradition, and immediate circumstances; and that they participate in various relationships of power. Most importantly, these essays demonstrate that religious spaces do not simply provide a convenient background for religious action but are also constituent of religious meaning and religious experience, that is, they play an active role in creating, expressing, broadcasting, maintaining, and transforming religious meaning, experience"--
- Uniform Title
- Oxford handbook of religious space (Online)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- ISBN
- 9780190875008
- LCCN
- 2022000261
- OCLC
- ssj0002667853
- Title
The Oxford handbook of religious space [electronic resource] / edited by Jeanne Halgren Kilde ; associate editors Barbara R. Ambros, David Bains, Susan L. Graham, Leonard Norman Primiano, David Simonowitz.
- Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Ambros, Barbara, 1968-
Bains, David.
Graham, Susan Lochrie.
Primiano, Leonard Norman.
Simonowitz, David.