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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

Religion and geography --- Sacred space --- Religion and geography. --- History of Europe --- Geography --- Christian church history --- anno 1500-1799 --- Sacred space. --- Bible --- Study and teaching --- History. --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Geography and religion

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Architecture and religion --- Church --- Sacred space --- 726.5 --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Ecclesiastical theology --- Ecclesiology --- Theology, Ecclesiastical --- People of God --- Theology --- Religion and architecture --- Religion --- 726.5 Kerkgebouwen. Kerkarchitectuur --- Kerkgebouwen. Kerkarchitectuur --- History of doctrines

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Mit der Vorstellung vom Kirchengebäude als heiligem Raum untersucht die vorliegende Studie eine zentrale Denkfigur mittelalterlicher Gesellschaftsdeutung, die "ecclesia". Anhand auf das Kirchengebäude bezogener normativer, liturgischer und exegetisch-theologischer Quellen verfolgt sie den tiefgreifenden Wandlungsprozess eines politisch-religiösen Gesellschaftskonzepts von der Spätantike zum Frühmittelalter. Sie zeichnet nach, wie sich durch die Verknüpfung der Spiritualität mit der Materialität des Kultes eine Transformation des bestehenden politischen Ordnungsmodells wie auch religionsgeschichtliche Veränderungen ergaben. Im Zuge beider verschränkten sich fortan die Vorstellungen des Kirchengebäudes als heiligem Ort und der Entfaltung einer "wahrhaft christlichen Gesellschaft". Die Studie beleuchtet so die bisher kaum untersuchte Verbindung zwischen Gesellschaftsdeutung und materieller Kultwirklichkeit und beschreibt die Entwicklungsdynamik, mit der sich eine epochal wirkmächtige Ekklesiologie herausbildete.

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In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative spaces in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine civilizations. Collectively they demonstrate the multiple ways in which works of architecture and their settings were active agents in the ritual process. Architecture did not merely host events; rather, it magnified and elevated them, interacting with rituals facilitating the construction of ceremony. This book examines comparatively the ways in which ideas and situations generated by the interaction of place, built environment, ritual action, and memory contributed to the cultural formulation of the sacred experience in different religious faiths.

Architecture and religion. --- Architecture --- Sacred space --- Architecture et religion --- Lieux sacrés --- Psychological aspects. --- General --- General. --- Lieux sacrés --- Architecture and religion --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Religion and architecture --- Religion --- Psychological aspects --- Design and construction --- Architecture, Primitive --- Arts and Humanities --- Architecture, Fine and Decorative Arts

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Archaeology of Spiritualties provides a fresh exploration of the interface between archaeology and religion/spirituality. Archaeological approaches to the study of religion have typically and often unconsciously, drawn on western paradigms, especially Judaeo-Christian (mono)theistic frameworks and academic rationalisations. Archaeologists have rarely reflected on how these approaches have framed and constrained their choices of methodologies, research questions, hypotheses, definitions, interpretations and analyses and have neglected an important dimension of religion: the human experience of the numinous - the power, presence or experience of the supernatural. Within the religions of many of the world’s peoples, sacred experiences – particularly in relation to sacred landscapes and beings connected with those landscapes – are often given greater emphasis, while doctrine and beliefs are relatively less important. Archaeology of Spiritualities asks how such experiences might be discerned in the archaeological record; how do we recognize and investigate ‘other’ forms of religious or spiritual experience in the remains of the past? The volume opens up a space to explore critically and reflexively the encounter between archaeology and diverse cultural expressions of spirituality. It showcases experiential and experimental methodologies in this area of the discipline, an unconventional approach within the archaeology of religion. Thus Archaeology of Spiritualities offers a unique, timely and innovative contribution, one that is also challenging and stimulating. It is a great resource for archaeologists, historians, religious scholars and others interested in cultural and religious heritage.

Archaeology and religion. --- Religion. --- Social sciences. --- History & Archaeology --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Religion - General --- Archaeology --- Religion and geography --- Sacred space --- Landscapes --- Archaeology. --- Research. --- Religious aspects --- Geography and religion --- Archeology --- Countryside --- Landscape --- Natural scenery --- Scenery --- Scenic landscapes --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Anthropology. --- Social Sciences. --- Religious Studies, general. --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Nature --- Holy, The --- Geography --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Human beings --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences