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Communities have often shaped themselves around cultural spaces set apart and declared sacred. For this purpose, churches, priests or scholars no less than writers frequently participate in giving sacred figures a local habitation and, sometimes, voice or name. But whatever sites, rites, images or narratives have thus been constructed, they also raise some complex questions: how can the sacred be presented and yet guarded, claimed yet concealed, staged in public and at the same time kept exclusive? Such questions are pursued here in a variety of English texts historically employed to manifest and manage versions of the sacred. But since their performances inhabit social space, this often functions as a theatrical arena which is also used to stage modes of dissent, difference, sacrifice and sacrilege. In this way, all aspects of social life - the family, the nation, the idea of kingship, gender identities, courtly ideals, love making or smoking - may become sacralized and buttress claims for power by recourse to a repertoire of religious symbolic forms. Through critical readings of central texts and authors - such as Sir Gawain, Foxe, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, or Vaughan - as well as less canonical examples - the Croxton play, Buchanan, Lanyer, Wroth, or the tobacco pamphlets - the twelve contributions all engage with the crucial question how, and to what end, performances of the sacred affect, or effect, cultural transformation.

Holy, The. --- Sacred space --- Numinous, The --- Sacred, The --- God --- Religion --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- England --- Religion.

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Religion in literature --- Civilization [Medieval ] in literature --- Holy [The ] in literature --- Sex in literature --- God in literature

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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Shrines --- Sacred space --- Magna Graecia (Italy) --- Italy, Southern --- Antiquities --- Civilization --- Greek influences --- Conferences - Meetings --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Magna Grecia (Italy) --- Greece --- Meridione (Italy) --- Mezzogiorno (Italy) --- Southern Italy --- Colonies

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History of civilization --- History of Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- Sacred space --- Lieux sacrés --- History. --- Histoire --- -291.35 --- 264-031 --- 248.153.8 --- 248.153.8 Bedevaarten. Pelgrimstochten--(algemeen) --- Bedevaarten. Pelgrimstochten--(algemeen) --- 264-031 Heilige plaatsen: kerken; tempels; bidplaatsen --- Heilige plaatsen: kerken; tempels; bidplaatsen --- 291.35 Heilige plaatsen: altaren; tempels; pagoden; kerken; moskeeën; bossen; grotten; heilige landen en steden --- Heilige plaatsen: altaren; tempels; pagoden; kerken; moskeeën; bossen; grotten; heilige landen en steden --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- History --- Lieux sacrés --- 291.35 --- Europe

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Mythology, Indic. --- 294*2 --- 294*2 Vedisme en voor-boeddhistisch Brahmanisme --- Vedisme en voor-boeddhistisch Brahmanisme --- Indic mythology --- Aryans --- Civilization, Aryan --- Civilization, Indo-European --- Indo-Germanic peoples --- Mythologie indienne --- Indo-Europeans --- Mythology, Indic --- Mythology, Roman --- Sacred space --- 292.2 --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Roman mythology --- Caucasian race --- Ethnology --- 292.2 Godsdiensten van de Romeinen --- Godsdiensten van de Romeinen --- Religion --- India --- Rome --- Religion. --- Mythology, Roman. --- Sacred space. --- Indo-Européens --- Mythologie romaine --- Lieux sacrés --- Inde --- Indo-Europeans - Religion --- Rome - Religion --- India - Religion