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Sacred space : shrine, city, land / edited by Benjamin Z. Kedar and R.J. Zwi Werblowsky.

Contributor(s): Prawer, Joshua | Ḳedar, B. Z | Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi, 1924-2015
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington Square, N.Y. : New York University Press, 1998Description: 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0814746802; 9780814746806Subject(s): Sacred space -- CongressesDDC classification: 291.3/5 LOC classification: BL580 | .S25 1998Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : mindscape and landscape / R. J. Zwi Werblowsky -- Constructing a small place / Jonathan Z. Smith -- A city of many temples : Ḫattuša, capital of the Hittites / Itamar Singer -- The sacred sea / Abraham Malamat -- Some Biblical concepts of sacred place / Sara Japhet -- The temple in the Hellenistic period and in Judaism / Doron Mendels -- The Divinity as place and time and the holy place in Jewish mysticism / Haviva Pedaya -- Byzantium's dual Holy Land / Evelyne Patlagean -- Intellectual activities in a holy city : Jerusalem in the twelfth century / Benjamin Z. Kedar -- The harem : a major source of Islam's military might / David Ayalon -- Holy body, holy society : conflicting medieval structural conceptions / Kenneth R. Stow -- Cities as cultic centres in Germany and Italy during the Early and High Middle Ages / Alfred Haverkamp -- Ambivalence and longing : Vyāsa's curse on Kāśī / David Shulman -- Geotyping sacred space : the case of Mount Hiko in Japan / Allan G. Grapard -- The cult of Santa María Tonantzin, Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico / Richard Nebel -- The Muslim holy cities as foci of Islamic revivalism in the eighteenth century / Nehemia Levtzion and Gideon Weigert -- Hallowed land in the theory and practice of modern nationalism / Hedva Ben-Israel -- The role of charismatic dreams in the creation of sacred sites in present-day Israel / Yoram Bilu -- Facing a holy space : psychiatric hospitalization of tourists in Jerusalem / Moshe Kalian and Eliezer Wiztu.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL580 .S25 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903097349

Proceedings from the international conference in memory of Joshua Prawer held in Jerusalem, June 8-13, 1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : mindscape and landscape / R. J. Zwi Werblowsky -- Constructing a small place / Jonathan Z. Smith -- A city of many temples : Ḫattuša, capital of the Hittites / Itamar Singer -- The sacred sea / Abraham Malamat -- Some Biblical concepts of sacred place / Sara Japhet -- The temple in the Hellenistic period and in Judaism / Doron Mendels -- The Divinity as place and time and the holy place in Jewish mysticism / Haviva Pedaya -- Byzantium's dual Holy Land / Evelyne Patlagean -- Intellectual activities in a holy city : Jerusalem in the twelfth century / Benjamin Z. Kedar -- The harem : a major source of Islam's military might / David Ayalon -- Holy body, holy society : conflicting medieval structural conceptions / Kenneth R. Stow -- Cities as cultic centres in Germany and Italy during the Early and High Middle Ages / Alfred Haverkamp -- Ambivalence and longing : Vyāsa's curse on Kāśī / David Shulman -- Geotyping sacred space : the case of Mount Hiko in Japan / Allan G. Grapard -- The cult of Santa María Tonantzin, Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico / Richard Nebel -- The Muslim holy cities as foci of Islamic revivalism in the eighteenth century / Nehemia Levtzion and Gideon Weigert -- Hallowed land in the theory and practice of modern nationalism / Hedva Ben-Israel -- The role of charismatic dreams in the creation of sacred sites in present-day Israel / Yoram Bilu -- Facing a holy space : psychiatric hospitalization of tourists in Jerusalem / Moshe Kalian and Eliezer Wiztu.

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