TY - BOOK ID - 78076027 TI - Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia PY - 2014 SN - 9004274073 9789004274075 1306689031 9781306689038 9789004274006 9004274006 PB - Brill DB - UniCat KW - Architecture KW - Religions KW - Comparative religion KW - Denominations, Religious KW - Religion, Comparative KW - Religions, Comparative KW - Religious denominations KW - World religions KW - Civilization KW - Gods KW - Religion KW - Indonesia KW - Religious life and customs. KW - Religion. KW - Antiquities. KW - Endonèsie KW - Indanezii︠a︡ KW - Indoneshia KW - Indoneshia Kyōwakoku KW - Indonesië KW - Indonesya KW - Indonezia KW - Indonezii︠a︡ KW - Indonezija KW - İndoneziya KW - İndoneziya Respublikası KW - Indūnīsīyā KW - Induonezėjė KW - Jumhūrīyah Indūnīsīyā KW - PDRI (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia) KW - Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia KW - R.I. (Republik Indonesia) KW - Republic of Indonesia KW - Republic of the United States of Indonesia KW - Republica d'Indonesia KW - Republiek van Indonesië KW - Republik Indonesia KW - Republik Indonesia Serikat KW - Republika Indonezii︠a︡ KW - Republika Indonezija KW - Rėspublika Indanezii︠a︡ KW - RI (Republik Indonesia) KW - United States of Indonesia KW - Yinni KW - Рэспубліка Інданезія KW - Република Индонезия KW - Индонезия KW - Інданезія KW - إندونيسيا KW - جمهورية إندونيسيا KW - インドネシア KW - インドネシア共和国 KW - Dutch East Indies UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78076027 AB - In his richly illustrated Religion and Architecture in Premodern Indonesia Gaudenz Domenig investigates the nature of Indonesian ethnic religions by focusing on land opening rituals, sacred groves, and architectural responses to the custom of presenting offerings. Since deities and spirits were supposed to taste offerings on the spot, it was a task of architecture to attract them and to guide them into houses where offerings were presented. Domenig quotes numerous sources to show that certain material elements of the house were viewed as spirit attractors, spirit ladders or spirit pathways. Various ‘exotic’ features of Indonesian vernacular architecture thus become understandable as relics from times when architecture was still responding to indigenous religions practised in the archipelago. ER -