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Sacred places have long exercised a special fascination. Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. They are the result of cultural developments and have varied multidimensional levels of significance. They are places where time is, as it were, suspended, and they are poi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Coomans, Thomas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2012]
Colección:KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society ; 9.
Temas:
Sacred space.
Shrines.
Religious facilities.
Christianity.
Christianity
Lieux sacrés.
Sanctuaires.
Constructions religieuses.
Christianisme.
shrines (structures)
religious buildings.
RELIGION > Christian Theology > Systematic.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christian Church > History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Rajesh Heynickx [and others]
  • Spirituality and scholarship : sacred acts in sacred spaces / David N. Bell
  • What makes a monastery a sacred place? / Armand Veilleux
  • Types. Introduction / Bart Verschaffel
  • The scandal of particularity : meaning, incarnation and sacred places / Herman De Dijn
  • (Sacred) places are made of time : observations on the persistence of the sacred in categorizing space in modernity / Bart Verschaffel
  • The house of God? The conceptualization of sacred places in the Hebrew Bible and beyond / Pierre Van Hecke
  • Sites. Introduction / Rajesh Heynickx
  • The need and the search for sacred places : a sociological perspective / Liliane Voyé
  • Capturing nameless energies, experiencing matrixial paradoxes : syncretist sacred sites on the Canary Islands / Paul Vandenbroeck
  • No places of pilgrimage without devotion(s) / Charles M.A. Caspers
  • Representing sacred space : pilgrimage and literature / Jamie S. Scott
  • Purported sacrality : the ambiguous past and ironic present of a sometimes sacred Mesoamerican archaeological-tourist site / Lindsay Jones
  • What makes a site sacred? Transforming 'place' to 'sacred space' / Terryl N. Kinder
  • Reusing. Introduction / Thomas Coomans
  • Dedication rituals and two models for the sacralization of space / Maarten Delbeke
  • Reuse of sacred places : perspectives for a long tradition / Thomas Coomans
  • 'Heritagization' of church buildings : Quebec and North American perspectives / Luc Noppen & Lucie K. Morisset.

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