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Modernity and the construction of sacred space /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors: French, Aaron (Researcher in religious studies) (Editor), Waldner, Katharina (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2024]
Series:SpatioTemporality ; v. 15.
Subjects:
Religious architecture.
Sacred space.
Architecture religieuse.
Lieux sacrés.
religious buildings.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Urbanity and the sacred
  • Religious encounters in profane spaces : Siegfried Kracauer's reading of spatial images and his critique of modern sacred architecture
  • Where the magic happens : sacred space within Western esotericism
  • Sacred gardens as healing spaces
  • Imagining non-hegemonic spaces
  • Temporary and imaginal sacred space in the textual transmission of modern ritual magic : the Temple of Abramelin (15th-20th century)
  • Spatial occultism : placement and spaces of occult ritual practice within pop culture
  • Performing and designing sacred space
  • The adaptive reuse of sacred space and ritual customs at Eleusis : the case of Panagia Mesosporitissa
  • Modernist topologies : the Goetheanum in-building
  • Sacred settings : the aesthetics of psychedelic sacred spaces
  • Constructing and building sacred spaces
  • Bruno Taut : architect as modern spiritual builder
  • The ineffable
  • Unspeakable space in le corbusier : catharsis, aesthetics, atmosphere
  • The architecture of the Church of the New Jerusalem : correspondences and debates on sacred space.