Research Catalog

Title

Loci sacri : understanding sacred places / T. Coomans [and others], eds.

Publication

Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, ©2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Coomans, Thomas.

Description

280 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

Sacred places have long exercised a special fascination. Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. They are the result of cultural developments and have varied multidimensional levels of significance. They are places where time is, as it were, suspended, and they are points where holy times and holy places meet. Sacred places are places apart. It is this specificity in the context of the Christian religions of the West that 'Loci sacri' wishes to unveil by bringing together specialists from various disciplines, countries, and Christian denominations. One of the questions is why some sites have for centuries proven to be so popular while others have not. Another topic is the way in which extraordinary natural sites have been designated as sacred and given new meaning, primarily by means of architecture. "Loci sacri" also explores the 'eternal' character of this sacred status.

Series Statement

KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society ; 9

Uniform Title

KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ; 9.

Subject

• Sacred space
• Shrines
• Religious facilities
• Christianity
• Christianity
• shrines (structures)
• religious buildings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-280).

Contents

Introduction / Rajesh Heynickx [and others] -- Spirituality and scholarship : sacred acts in sacred spaces / David N. Bell -- What makes a monastery a sacred place? / Armand Veilleux -- Types. Introduction / Bart Verschaffel -- The scandal of particularity : meaning, incarnation and sacred places / Herman De Dijn -- (Sacred) places are made of time : observations on the persistence of the sacred in categorizing space in modernity / Bart Verschaffel -- The house of God? The conceptualization of sacred places in the Hebrew Bible and beyond / Pierre Van Hecke -- Sites. Introduction / Rajesh Heynickx -- The need and the search for sacred places : a sociological perspective / Liliane Voyé -- Capturing nameless energies, experiencing matrixial paradoxes : syncretist sacred sites on the Canary Islands / Paul Vandenbroeck -- No places of pilgrimage without devotion(s) / Charles M.A. Caspers -- Representing sacred space : pilgrimage and literature / Jamie S. Scott -- Purported sacrality : the ambiguous past and ironic present of a sometimes sacred Mesoamerican archaeological-tourist site / Lindsay Jones -- What makes a site sacred? Transforming 'place' to 'sacred space' / Terryl N. Kinder -- Reusing. Introduction / Thomas Coomans -- Dedication rituals and two models for the sacralization of space / Maarten Delbeke -- Reuse of sacred places : perspectives for a long tradition / Thomas Coomans -- 'Heritagization' of church buildings : Quebec and North American perspectives / Luc Noppen & Lucie K. Morisset.

ISBN

• 9789058678423
• 9058678423

LCCN

2012387588

OCLC

• ocn676870348
• 676870348
• SCSB-1628787

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library