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Sacred words and worlds : geography, religion, and scholarship, 1550-1700
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ISSN: 18720684 ISBN: 9789004209350 9004209352 9786613310620 1283310627 9004209387 9789004209381 Year: 2012 Volume: 21 2 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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In early modern Europe, fundamental geographical as well as religious certainties became unstable. At the intersection of the two stood sacred geography. This book examines the scope and content of this early modern scholarly genre, which engaged many of Europe’s leading scholars. On the one hand, 'geographia sacra' is analyzed in the context of antiquarian scholarship. Equipped with newly-developed sophisticated tools, scholars compiled, measured, and meticulously documented biblical and ecclesiastical space. On the other hand, this study argues, 'geographia sacra' was never detached from present concerns, and took part in confessional debates over scriptural authority, papal legitimacy, and the authenticity of liturgy. Hence today’s interest in the notions of ‘sacred space’ and spatiality had a lively, controversial, and crucial precedent in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions , 2


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Espaces ecclésiastiques et seigneuries laïques : définitions, modèles et conflits en zones d'interface, IXe-XIIIe siècle
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ISSN: 02904500 ISBN: 9791035106119 Year: 2021 Volume: 173 Publisher: Paris : Éditions de la Sorbonne,

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"De la fin du ixe au XIIIe siècle a lieu en Occident un processus de séparation des pouvoirs aristocratiques laïques et ecclésiastiques, en lien avec la réforme grégorienne, tandis que l'on assiste également à un phénomène de spatialisation, puis de territorialisation, du pouvoir. Si ces thématiques sont au coeur de nombreuses recherches actuelles, les chercheurs francophones et germanophones les comprennent très différemment. Ainsi, à l'inverse des Français, les Allemands ne se sont quasiment pas, après 1945, intéressés aux problèmes spatiaux : le terme allemand Territorialisierung, qui recouvre l'idée que le pouvoir des aristocrates ait pu être fondé sur un principe territorial et reposer sur des espaces aux frontières plus ou moins bien définies, n'est utilisé que pour décrire des phénomènes à partir de la fin du XIIe siècle. Ce volume réunit donc les textes de jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses issus des deux rives du Rhin afin de comparer ces approches à partir de l'étude de l'élaboration de nouveaux modèles de domination spatiale dans les royaumes de France et de Germanie. Ils s'intéressent de manière concrète à l'intrication des espaces laïques et ecclésiastiques, aux formes et aux enjeux des zones d'interface entre ces deux mondes, aux conflits et aux interactions résultant de leurs délimitations. Cela doit permettre de dépasser les traditions historiographiques nationales pour susciter de nouvelles approches comparatistes et ainsi créer les conditions d'un dialogue renouvelé."--Page 4 of cover.

Sacred worlds : an introduction to geography and religion
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ISBN: 0415090121 041509013X 9780415090124 Year: 1994 Publisher: London Routledge

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'Sacred Worlds' explores the ways in which religion, its symbols, rites, beliefs and hopes, has shaped the world in which we live. Chris Park explores the definitions of religion, its historical and ideological origins and its development. Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and their numerous offshoots are all described. The wide range of material drawn from these different belief systems is set within the context of religious, demographic, political and economic change. The nature of sacred space as place of pilgrimage and as cultural landscape is also analysed. This book enriches our understanding of the ways in which religion has mapped our world.


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Modern architecture and the sacred : religious legacies and spiritual renewal
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ISBN: 9781350098664 9781350098718 9781350098725 1350098663 9781350098732 1350098736 135009871X 1350098728 9781350294356 Year: 2020 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Visual Arts

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This edited volume, Modern Architecture and the Sacred, presents a timely reappraisal of the manifold engagements that modern architecture has had with'the sacred'. It comprises fourteen individual chapters arranged in three thematic sections – Beginnings and Transformations of the Modern Sacred; Buildings for Modern Worship; and Semi-Sacred Settings in the Cultural Topography of Modernity. The first interprets the intellectual and artistic roots of modern ideas of the sacred in the post-Enlightenment period and tracks the transformation of these in architecture over time. The second studies the ways in which organized religion responded to the challenges of the new modern self-understanding, and then the third investigates the ways that abstract modern notions of the sacred have been embodied in the ersatz sacred contexts of theatres, galleries, memorials and museums. While centring on Western architecture during the decisive period of the first half of the 20th century – a time that takes in the early musings on spirituality by some of the avant-garde in defiance of Sachlichkeit and the machine aesthetic – the volume also considers the many-varied appropriations of sacrality that architects have made up to the present day, and also in social and cultural contexts beyond the West.

God and enchantment of place : reclaiming human experience.
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ISBN: 0199271984 9780199288762 0199288763 9780199271986 9786612007316 1282007319 0191533998 0191602809 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university press

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David Brown argues that it is important to experience God through place in all its variety - nature, landscape art architecture, gardens, sports venues, pilgrimage, maps, and town planning. Religious consciousness in cultural and artistic contexts reinvigorates debates concerning the existence of God.


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Architecture and pilgrimage, 1000-1500 : Southern Europe and beyond
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ISBN: 9781472410832 9781138248168 1138248169 1472410831 Year: 2013 Publisher: Aldershot [etc.] Ashgate

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Although there is an obvious association between pilgrimage and place, relatively little research has centred directly on the role of architecture. Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500: Southern Europe and Beyond synthesizes the work of a distinguished international group of scholars. It takes a broad view of architecture, to include cities, routes, ritual topographies and human interaction with the natural environment, as well as specific buildings and shrines, and considers how these were perceived, represented and remembered. The essays explore both the ways in which the physical embodiment of pilgrimage cultures is shared, and what we can learn from the differences. The chosen period reflects the flowering of medieval and early modern pilgrimage. The perspective is that of the pilgrim journeying within - or embarking from - Southern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Italy. The book pursues the connections between pilgrimage and architecture through the investigation of such issues as theology, liturgy, patronage, miracles and healing, relics, and individual and communal memory. Moreover, it explores how pilgrimage may be regarded on various levels, from a physical journey towards a holy site to a more symbolic and internalized idea of pilgrimage of the soul.


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Heaven can wait : purgatory in catholic devotional and popular culture
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ISBN: 9780195382020 9780199700424 0199700427 0195382021 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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After purgatory was officially defined by the Catholic Church in the thirteenth century, its location became a topic of heated debate and philosophical speculation: Was purgatory located on the earth, or within it? Were its fires real or figurative? Diana Walsh Pasulka offers a groundbreaking historical exploration of spatial and material concepts of purgatory, beginning with scholastic theologians William of Auvergne and Thomas Aquinas, who wrote about the location of purgatory and questioned whether its torments were physical or solely spiritual. In the same period, writers of devotional literature located purgatory within the earth, near hell, and even in Ireland. In the early modern era, a counter-movement of theologians downplayed purgatory's spatial dimensions, preferring to depict it in abstract terms—a view strengthened during the French Enlightenment, when references to purgatory as a terrestrial location or a place of real fire were ridiculed by anti-Catholic polemicists and discouraged by the Church. The debate surrounding purgatory's materiality has never ended: even today members of post-millennial ''purgatory apostolates'' maintain that purgatory is an actual, physical place. Heaven Can Wait provides crucial insight into the theological problem of purgatory's materiality (or lack thereof) over the past seven hundred years.

Body and sacred place in medieval Europe, 1100-1389
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ISBN: 0415988381 0203009061 9780203009062 9780415988384 9786610142088 6610142084 9781135860042 1135860041 9781135859992 113585999X 9781135860035 1135860033 9780415803526 0415803527 1280142081 Year: 2003 Volume: 18 Publisher: New York London Routledge

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Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe investigates the medieval understanding of sacred place, arguing for the centrality of bodies and bodily metaphors to the establishment, function, use, and power of medieval churches. Questioning the traditional division of sacred and profane jurisdictions, this book identifies the need to consider non-devotional uses of churches in the Middle Ages. Dawn Marie Hayes examines idealized visions of medieval sacred places in contrast with the mundane and profane uses of these buildings. She argues that by the later Middle Ages-as loyalties were tor

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