Locating the Sacred: Theoretical Approaches to the Emplacement of Religion - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782976167 ISBN 13 : 9781782976165

Editeur : Oxbow Books, 2014

Synopsis

Ritual happens in distinct places – in temples, in caves, along pilgrimage routes – and religious activities there incorporate a 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 that may have broad cross-cultural application and provide new insight into the relationship between ritual and place.The volume is based on a conference held at Brown University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxbow Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782976167
• ISBN 13: 9781782976165
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Éditeur: Moser Claudia, Feldman Cecelia
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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