Research Catalog

Title

Sacred places in modern western culture / Paul Post, Arie L. Molendijk & Justin E.A. Kroesen (eds.).

Publication

Leuven ; Walpole, MA : Peeters, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Post, Paul, 1953-
• Molendijk, Arie L.
• Kroesen, Justin, 1975-

Description

vii, 354 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Raum
• Sacred space
• Civilization, Western

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [329]-348).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• I. Introduction. Ritual space in modern Western culture : some current trends / Paul Post, Arie L. Molendijk & Justin Kroesen -- II. Themes and trends. Fields of the sacred : reframing identities of sacred places / Paul Post --Temple of tolerance : on the musealization of religion / Alex Stock -- Memorialising the dead : places, objects, actions, attitudes / Thomas Quartier -- III. Exploring the field. From monastery to five-star accommodation : the Crutched Friars Hotel, Maastricht / Justin Kroesen -- Mercy land in a garage box : the Celesital Church of Christ, Amsterdam Southeast / Nienke Pruiksma & Marten van der Meulen -- St Peter and Paul Church, Maassluis / Louis van Tongeren -- The Tor Tre Teste Millennium Church by Richard Meier, Rome / Paul Post -- The Cathedral Hill of Erfurt : an ecclesiasal ensemble in a secular society / Benedikt Kranemann -- Chapel St Mary of the Angels, Rotterdam / Louis van Tongeren --^
• From church to columbarium : forms of commemoration of a culture of life as a challenge for Christian congregations in pluralist societies / Albert Gerhards -- Groenlo : a medieval town church put to a mix of functions / Justin Kroesen -- Experiencing the numinous in a medieval village church : the Protestant Church at Zeerijp / Regnerus Steensma & Justin Kroesen -- St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, San Francisco / Louis van Tongeren -- The mosque as a statement : the Süleymaniye Mosque in Tilburg as a case in point / Herman Beck -- A new purpose-built Hindu temple in Wijchen / Tineke Nugteren -- Green Cathedral, Almere, and ABRI Cathedral, Neeltje Jans / Marcel Barnard -- The Rothko Chapel, Houston / Paul Post -- Room of silence, University Medical Center Utrecht / Jorien Holsappel-Brons -- Meditation Centre Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam / Jorien Holsappel-Brons --^
• Religious space in the business district : church and chapel at the Citigroup-building in New York / Justin Kroesen -- The Room of Silence in the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin / Jorien Holsappel-Brons -- The Versöhnungskapelle, Berlin / Jorien Holsappel-Brons -- The chapel in the Olympic Stadium, Berlin / Jorien Holsappel-Brons -- Farewell to a Dutch singer : stadium death celebrations : tokens of our time / Irene Stengs -- Practicing religion in private : the home altar / Peter Jan Margry -- The silent march : a ritual of healing and protest for an afflicted society / Peter Jan Margry -- Ephemeral memorials : commemorative rituals upon violent death in the public domain I : the case of Anja Joos / Irene Stengs -- Ephemeral memorials : commemorative rituals upon violent death in the public domain II : the Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh memorial sites / Irene Stengs --
• The Menin Gate Memorial / Kenneth E. Foote & Dominique Vanneste -- Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, Oklahoma City / Kenneth Foote -- Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC / Arie L. Molendijk -- Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, Berlin / Paul Post -- The Columbine High School shooting, Colorado / Kenneth E. Foote & Sylvia Grider -- Vernacular memorials and spontaneous shrines / Sylvia Grider & Kenneth E. Foote -- Reclaiming and reinterpreting ritual in the Woodland Burial Ground / Andy Clayden -- The Queen Wilhelmina Forest : a place to commemorate cancer victims / Judith Tonnaer -- Ash disposal and the making of new memorial environments in the UK / Jenny Hockey, Leonie Kellaher & David Prendergast -- Celebrating mass via the television screen / Kees de Groot -- Celebrating life stories on the World Wide Web / Marcel Barnard -- Virtual memorials for the dead and dying in the Netherlands / Marga Altena -- Technopaganism : online magic and the mysterious manifestation of cyberspace / Stefan Aupers -- IV. Bibliography. Bibliography on the triad space : ritual : religion / Paul Post (composition.)

ISBN

• 9789042924987
• 9042924985

LCCN

^^2011381407

OCLC

• 747019059
• SCSB-11374707

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library