Loci sacri : understanding sacred places / T. Coomans [and others], eds.
Contributor(s): Coomans, Thomas
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TextSeries: KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society: 9.Publisher: Leuven, Belgium : Leuven University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789058678423 (pbk.); 9058678423 (pbk.)Subject(s): Sacred space | Shrines | Religious facilities | ChristianityBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [256]-280).| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BL580 .L63 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903327571 |
"This book originated with an international colloquium in September 2007 in Leuven entitled Locri Sacri. Sacrale plaatsen en hun geheimen (Sacred places and their secrets)."--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [256]-280).
Introduction / Rajesh Heynickx, Thomas Coomans, Herman De Dijn, Jan De Maeyer, Bart Verschaffel -- Spirituality and scholarship : sacred acts and sacred spaces / David N. Bell -- What makes a monastery a sacred place? / Armand Veilleux -- Types. Introduction / Bart Verschaffel -- The scandal of particularity : meaning, incarnation, and sacred places / Herman De Dijn -- (Sacred) places are made of time : observations on the persistence of the sacred in categorizing space in modernity / Bart Verschaffel -- The house of God? : the conceptualization of sacred places in the Hebrew Bible and beyond / Pierre Van Hecke --
Sites. Introduction / Rajesh Heynickx -- The need and the search for sacred places : a sociological perspective / Liliane Voyé -- Capturing nameless energies, experiencing matrixial paradoxes : syncretist sacred sites on the Canary Islands / Paul Vandenbroeck -- No places of pilgrimage without devotion(s) / Charles M.A. Caspers -- Representing sacred space : pilgrimage and literature / Jamie S. Scott -- Purported sacrality : the ambiguous past and ironic present of a sometimes sacred Mesoamerican archaeological-tourist site / Lindsay Jones -- What makes a site sacred? : transforming 'place' to 'sacred space' / Terryl N. Kinder -- Reusing. Introduction / Thomas Coomans -- Dedication rituals and two models for the sacralization of space / Maarten Delbeke -- Reuse of sacred places : perspectives for a long tradition / Thomas Coomans -- 'Heritagization' of church buildings : Quebec and North American perspectives / Luc Noppen, Lucie K. Morisset.