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Title

Locating the sacred : theoretical approaches to the emplacement of religion / edited by Claudia Moser Cecelia Feldman .

Publication

• Oakville : Oxbow Books, [2014]
• ©2014

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Additional Authors

Feldman, Cecelia

Description

184 pages : colored illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

Ritual happens in distinct places - in temples, in caves, along pilgrimage routes - and religious activities there incorporate diverse set of objects such as holy water, cult statues, and sacred texts. Understanding religious ritual requires viewing it not as a disembodied event, but as emplaced, grounded in both built and natural surroundings, and integrated with its associated material objects. Here authors examine various religious practices in the Greco-Roman world and pilgrimage routes in contemporary Israel. Other contributions focus on the East, on domestic, religion in prehistoric Taiwan, and the palimpsest of ritual activity in Buddhist China. One author considers not just ritual's built and natural setting, but also the landscape of the human mind. By way of conclusion, many of the recurring issues concerning the material and topographic matrix of ritual practice are expanded, upon in a final meditation on sacred space. The papers in this volume, with their disciplinary, geographic, and chronological diversity, will serve as a resource for theoretical approaches to the study of ritual practice and will have broad cross-cultural application, providing new insight into the relationship between ritual and place. Book jacket.

Series Statement

Joukowsky Institute publication ; 3

Uniform Title

Joukowsky Institute publication 3.

Subject

• Ritual
• Rites and ceremonies
• Religion and geography
• Sacred space
• Heiligtum
• Religion
• Religionsgeografie
• Ritus

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-179) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Linear reflections : ritual memory and material reflection at the thirteen altars at lavinium / Claudia Moser -- Re-placing the Nile : water and mimesis in the Roman practice of Egyptian religion at Pergamon / Cecelia A. Feldman -- Itinerant creeds : the Chinese northern frontier / Paola Dematte -- The dig at the end of the world : archaeology and apocalypse, tourism in the valley of Armageddon / Isaac Morrison -- Power of place : ruler, landscape, and ritual space at the sanctuaries of Labraunda and Mamurt Kale in Asia Minor / Christina Williamson -- Transforming the surroundings and its impact on cult rituals : the case study of Artemis Mounichia in the Fifth Century / Chyssanthi Papadopoulou -- The sacred houses in Neolithic Wansan Society / Chih-hua Chiang and Yi-chang Liu -- Putting religious ritual in its place : on some ways humans cognitive predilections influence the locations and shapes of religious rituals / Robert N. McCauley -- The aptitude for scared space / Ian B. Straughn.

ISBN

• 9781782976165
• 1782976167

LCCN

• ^^2013042425
• 40023414596

OCLC

• 859038494
• SCSB-12487437

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library