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Defining the sacred : approaches to the archaeology of religion in the Near East /
Religion is a phenomenon that is inseparable from human society. It brings about a set of emotional, ideological and practical elements that are pervasive in the social fabric of any society and can be characterized by a number of features. These include the establishment of intermediaries in the re...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; Philadelphia :
Oxbow Books,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction: Investigating archaeological approaches to the study of religious practices and beliefs; Part I: Sacred Nature; Chapter 2: Animal burials and their cults in Margiana; Chapter 3: Identifying sacrifice in Bronze Age Near Eastern iconography; Chapter 4: Cult and the rise of desert pastoralism: a case study from the Negev; Chapter 5: Thoughts on material expressions of cultic practice. Standing stone monuments of the Early Bronze Age in the southern Levant
- Chapter 6: Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia: towards a definition of sacred space and its evolutionPart II: Housing the God; Chapter 7: A sanctuary, or so fair a house? In defense of an archaeology of cult at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe; Chapter 8: Where to worship? Religion in Iron II Israel and Judah; Chapter 9: Communal places of worship: ritual activities and ritualised ideology during the Early Bronze Age Jezirah; Chapter 10: Open spaces around the temples and their ritual use: archaeological evidence from the Bronze and Iron Age Levant
- Chapter 11: Ritual circumambulations in the Syro-Mesopotamian cuneiform texts. An overviewChapter 12: A temple lifecycle: rituals of construction, restoration, and destruction of some ED Mesopotamian and Syrian sacred buildings; Part III: The Materialisation of Religious Beliefs and Practices; Chapter 13: Ritual performance and religion in early Neolithic societies; Chapter 14: Casting the sacred: Chalcolithic metallurgy and ritual in the southern Levant; Chapter 15: How better understanding of ritual practices can help the comprehension of religious feelings