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Layered Landscapes

Eric Nelson, Jonathan Wright
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      This volume explores the conceptualization and construction of sacred space in a wide variety of faith traditions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the religions of Japan. It deploys the notion of "layered landscapes" in order to trace the accretions of praxis and belief, the tensions between old and new devotional patterns, and the imposition of new religious ideas and behaviors on pre-existing religious landscapes in a series of carefully chosen locales: Cuzco, Edo, Geneva, Granada, Herat, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Kanchipuram, Paris, Philadelphia, Prague, and Rome. Some chapters hone in on the process of imposing novel religious beliefs, while others focus on how vestiges of displaced faiths endured. The intersection of sacred landscapes with political power, the world of ritual, and the expression of broader cultural and social identity are also examined. Crucially, the volume reveals that the creation of sacred space frequently involved more than religious buildings and was a work of historical imagination and textual expression. While a book of contrasts as much as comparisons, the volume demonstrates that vital questions about the location of the sacred and its reification in the landscape were posed by religious believers across the early-modern world.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Eric Nelson, Jonathan Wright EAN: 9780367880484 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 470 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-12-12 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      CE period up to c 1500, c 1500 onwards to present day, History and Archaeology, European history: Renaissance, Comparative religion, History of religion

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      Eric Nelson is Professor of History at Missouri State University.Jonathan Wright is Honorary Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.
      This volume explores the conceptualization and construction of sacred space in a wide variety of faith traditions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the religions of Japan. It deploys the notion of "layered landscapes" in order to trace the accretions of praxis and belief, the tensions between old and new devotional patterns, and the imposition of new religious ideas and behaviors on pre-existing religious landscapes in a series of carefully chosen locales: Cuzco, Edo, Geneva, Granada, Herat, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Kanchipuram, Paris, Philadelphia, Prague, and Rome. Some chapters hone in on the process of imposing novel religious beliefs, while others focus on how vestiges of displaced faiths endured. The intersection of sacred landscapes with political power, the world of ritual, and the expression of broader cultural and social identity are also examined. Crucially, the volume reveals that the creation of sacred space frequently involved more than religious buildings and was a work of historical imagination and textual expression. While a book of contrasts as much as comparisons, the volume demonstrates that vital questions about the location of the sacred and its reification in the landscape were posed by religious believers across the early-modern world.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Eric Nelson, Jonathan Wright EAN: 9780367880484 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 470 g HEIGHT: 234 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-12-12 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      CE period up to c 1500, c 1500 onwards to present day, History and Archaeology, European history: Renaissance, Comparative religion, History of religion

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      Eric Nelson is Professor of History at Missouri State University.Jonathan Wright is Honorary Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.

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