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The Oxford handbook of religious space /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Oxford Academic
Other Authors: Ambros, Barbara, 1968- (Editor), Bains, David (Editor), Graham, Susan Lochrie (Editor), Primiano, Leonard Norman (Editor), Simonowitz, David (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Oxford handbooks.
Subjects:
Sacred space.
Religious facilities.
Lieux sacrés.
Constructions religieuses.
religious buildings.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Thinking about religious space : an introduction to approaches / Jeanne Halgren Kilde
  • Conceptualizing space and place : genealogies of change in the study of religion / Juan E. Campo
  • Hermeneutics of space : sacred space / Michael J. Crosbie
  • Urbanism and religious space / Paul-François Tremlett
  • Shared space, or mixed? / Robert M. Hayden
  • Decommissioning and reuse of liturgical architectures : historical processes and temporal dimensions / Andrea Longhi
  • The impermanence of religious space : three approaches to change in the American religioscape / Jeanne Halgren Kilde
  • Planetary identities : globalization, climate change and meaning-making practices / Whitney A. Bauman
  • Whose place is it? Layers of community and meaning in the land of Shinto and power spots / Caleb Carter
  • Religious place/space in premodern China / Wei-Cheng Lin
  • National treasures vs. alien species : religious spaces, raccoons, and national identity in contemporary Japan / Barbara R. Ambros
  • Visualizing Himalayan Buddhist sacred sites in 3D/VR : pedagogy and partnership / Lauren Leve and Bradley Erickson
  • Form and function in the ancient synagogue : evidence from the second to seventh centuries in Palestine and the diaspora / Marilyn J. Chiat
  • A little bit of evil : Masjid Kufa in Early Twelver Shi'ism / Najam Haider
  • Mediated spaces of collective ritual : sacred selfies at the Hajj / Nadia Caidi and Mariam Karim
  • (In)visible priorities : epigraphic power and identity at a Jordanian state mosque / David Simonowitz
  • Exploration of religious spaces in Western Africa : combining approaches to understand spaces / Daniel Dei
  • Religious spaces as tourist sites in Ghana / Alice Matilda Nsiah
  • Sacred space in 19th century Cape Town : mosque, city, landscape and a radical empiricism of the spatial / Ozayr Saloojee
  • Mapping the spiritual Baptist universe : black Atlantic cosmography and the spatiality of spirit in Trinidad and Tobago / Brendan Jamal Thornton
  • The spaces of Roman religion and Christianity in late antiquity / Béatrice Caseau Chevallier
  • Presence and performance : Orthodox spaces of the Eastern Roman Empire / Amy Papalexandrou
  • Remnants of Israel : Jewish spaces and landscapes in medieval and early modern Europe / Jessica Renee Streit and Barry L. Stiefel
  • the religious landscape and its architecture in contemporary Europe / Esteban Fernández-Cobián
  • Pre-Columbian and indigenous religious spaces in Mesoamerica / Brent K.S. Woodfill
  • Protestant architecture in Latin America / Rodrigo Vidal Rojas
  • Roman Catholic sacred space / Leonard Norman Primiano
  • Protestant spaces in North America / David R. Bains
  • Eastern Orthodox spaces in America / Nicholas Denysenko
  • Diasporic sacred spaces : the case of boundary making at an American Sufi shrine / Merin Shobhana Xavier
  • Women's mosques : spaces to rethink gender and religious authority / Irum Shiekh
  • Sites of miracles and other holy places : the Santuario de Chimayó as case study / Brett Hendrickson
  • Situating the dead : cemeteries as material, symbolic, and relational space / Avril Madrell and Brenda Mathijssen
  • Fundament and abyss : public religion at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial / David Lê.