Landscapes Of The Sacred
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Landscapes of the Sacred
Author | : Belden C. Lane |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0801868386 |
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This substantially expanded edition of Belden C. Lane's Landscapes of the Sacred includes a new introductory chapter that offers three new interpretive models for understanding American sacred space. Lane maintains his approach of interspersing shorter and more personal pieces among full-length essays that explore how Native American, early French and Spanish, Puritan New England, and Catholic Worker traditions has each expressed the connection between spirituality and place. A new section at the end of the book includes three chapters that address methodological issues in the study of spirituality, the symbol-making process of religious experience, and the tension between place and placelessness in Christian spirituality.
Rock Art and Sacred Landscapes
Author | : Donna L. Gillette,Mavis Greer,Michele Helene Hayward,William Breen Murray |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2013-10-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781461484066 |
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Social and behavioral scientists study religion or spirituality in various ways and have defined and approached the subject from different perspectives. In cultural anthropology and archaeology the understanding of what constitutes religion involves beliefs, oral traditions, practices and rituals, as well as the related material culture including artifacts, landscapes, structural features and visual representations like rock art. Researchers work to understand religious thoughts and actions that prompted their creation distinct from those created for economic, political, or social purposes. Rock art landscapes convey knowledge about sacred and spiritual ecology from generation to generation. Contributors to this global view detail how rock art can be employed to address issues regarding past dynamic interplays of religions and spiritual elements. Studies from a number of different cultural areas and time periods explore how rock art engages the emotions, materializes thoughts and actions and reflects religious organization as it intersects with sociopolitical cultural systems.
Profane Landscapes Sacred Spaces
Author | : Miroslav Bárta |
Publsiher | : New Directions in Anthropological Archaeology |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Environmental archaeology |
ISBN | : 178179409X |
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Ever since Herodotus, it has been observed that Egypt - that is, ancient Egyptian civilisation - was a gift of the Nile. However, only recently have Egyptologists come to appreciate that Egypt was as much a gift of the desert as a gift of the water, at least as regards its very beginnings. To understand the civilisation that originally settled along the Nile Valley and in the Delta, we must study not only the remains of ancient monuments, excavated artefacts and reconstructed texts, but take proper account of the landscape, conditions and environment that shaped Egypt's culture, religion and ideology. This volume addresses various aspects of how the world was perceived in the minds of Egyptians, and how Egyptians subsequently reshaped their surrounding landscape in harmony with their view of geography and cosmological ideas. Profane landscape and sacred space thus blend into one multi-faceted concept.
Sacred Landscapes of Hittites and Luwians
Author | : Anacleto D’Agostino,Valentina Orsi,Giulia Torri |
Publsiher | : Firenze University Press |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9788866559030 |
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Known from the Old Testament as one of the tribes occupying the Promised Land, the Hittities were in reality a powerful neighbouring kingdom: highly advanced in political organization, administration of justice and military genius; with a literature inscribed in cuneiform writing on clay tablets; and with a rugged and individual figurative art ... Newly revised and updated, this classic account reconstructs a complete and balanced picture of Hittite civilization, using both established and more recent sources.
Sacred Landscapes
Author | : A. T. Mann |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Sacred space |
ISBN | : 1402765207 |
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Captures magical spaces - archetypal and architectural manifestations of the sacred. This title illustrates the ways in which people have used and understood their sacred landscapes throughout history and around the world, from hillside Celtic oak initiation groves to Megalithic open-air sanctuaries to Macchu Picchu and Oregon's Crater Lake.
Landscape Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium
Author | : Veronica della Dora |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2016-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107139091 |
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Explores Byzantine perceptions of creation and different types of natural environments, and the principles underpinning such perceptions.
Landscape as Sacred Space
Author | : Steven Lewis |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2005-07-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781597522113 |
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Steven Lewis's Landscape as Sacred Space: Metaphors for the Spiritual Journey invites new discussions about our spiritual journeys and allows seekers to rethink approaches to Christian spirituality and theology in light of postmodernity. Landscape metaphors provide a common and accessible language to articulate one's spiritual journey. Spiritual mountains, deserts, and valleys are dominant landscapes on our journey through life. Most people have experienced the joy of a mountaintop spiritual experience, the pain of spiritual deserts, or perhaps the dreariness too often associated with spiritual valleys. There is a tendency, however, to highlight spiritual mountaintops, while avoiding spiritual deserts and ignoring spiritual valleys. This leaves many Christians ill-equipped either to deal with crises or to integrate God into ordinary life. Each landscape offers rich lessons that, when combined together, lead us toward a maturing faith and into a deeper relationship with God. 'Landscape as Sacred Space' is intended to aid those who search for more meaningful ways to articulate their faith journey. The book grants permission to struggle with life's landscapes, provides safe spaces to reflect on the journey, and introduces language that enables exploration and discovery.
Landscapes of the Secular
Author | : Nicolas Howe |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2016-09-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780226376806 |
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“What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?” asks Nicolas Howe at the outset of this innovative, ambitious, and wide-ranging book. It’s a surprising question because of what it implies: we usually aren’t seeing American landscapes through a non-religious lens, but rather as inflected by complicated, little-examined concepts of the sacred. Fusing geography, legal scholarship, and religion in a potent analysis, Howe shows how seemingly routine questions about how to look at a sunrise or a plateau or how to assess what a mountain is both physically and ideologically, lead to complex arguments about the nature of religious experience and its implications for our lives as citizens. In American society—nominally secular but committed to permitting a diversity of religious beliefs and expressions—such questions become all the more fraught and can lead to difficult, often unsatisfying compromises regarding how to interpret and inhabit our public lands and spaces. A serious commitment to secularism, Howe shows, forces us to confront the profound challenges of true religious diversity in ways that often will have their ultimate expression in our built environment. This provocative exploration of some of the fundamental aspects of American life will help us see the land, law, and society anew.