Overview

Sacred Space: Shrine, City, Land - a collection of articles that deal with Holy Places from Antiquity to the present; from the lands of the Fertile Crescent to Europe, India, Japan and Mexico; from mountains and seas to temples, cities and countries; from the construction, perception and functioning of sacred sites to the psychotic breakdowns they bring on some visitors.

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Author:   Benjamin Z. Kedar ,  R.J. Zwi Werblowsky
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.596kg
ISBN:  

9780333661291

ISBN 10:   033366129
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   22 February 1998
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface - Introduction: Mindscape and Landscape; R.J.Zwi Werblowsky - Constructing a Small Place; J.Z.Smith - A City of Many Temples: Hattusa, Capital of the Hittites; I.Singer - The Sacred Sea; A.Malamat - Some Biblical Concepts of Sacred Place; S.Japhet - The Temple in the Hellenistic Period and in Judaism; D.Mendels - The Divinity as Place and Time and the Holy Place in Jewish Mysticism; H.Pedaya - Byzantium's Dual Holy Land; E.Patlagean - Intellectual Activities in a Holy City: Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century; B.Z.Kedar - The Harem: A Major Source of Islam's Military Might; D.Ayalon - Holy Body, Holy Society: Conflicting Medieval Structural Conceptions; K.R.Stow - Cities as Cultic Centres in Germany and Italy during the Early and High Middle Ages; A.Haverkamp - Ambivalence and Longing: Vyasa's Curse on Kasi; D.Shulman - Geotyping Sacred Space: The Case of Mount Hiko in Japan; A.G.Grapard - The Cult of Santa Maria Tontantzin, Virgin of Guadelupe in Mexico; R.Nebel - The Muslim Holy Cities as Foci of Islamic Revivalism in the Eighteenth Century; N.Levtzion & G.Weigert - Hallowed Land in the Theory and Practice of Modern Nationalism; H.Ben-Israel - The Role of Charismatic Dreams in the Creation of Sacred Sites in Present-Day Israel; Y.Bilu - Facing a Holy Space: Psychiatric Hospitalization of Tourists in Jerusalem; M.Kalian & E.Witztum - List of Contributors - Index

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