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Locating the sacred : theoretical approaches to the emplacement of religion / edited by Claudia Moser and Cecelia Feldman.

Contributor(s): Moser, Claudia [editor.] | Feldman, Cecelia [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Joukowsky Institute publication: 3.Publisher: Oxford ; Oakville : Oxbow Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 184 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781782976165 (pbk.); 1782976167Subject(s): Ritual | Rites and ceremonies | Religion and geography | Sacred spaceDDC classification: 203/.8 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Claudia Moser and Cecelia Feldman -- Linear reflections: ritual memory and material repetition at the Thirteen Altars at Lavinium / Claudia Moser -- Re-placing the Nile: water and mimesis in the Roman practice of Egyptian religion at Pergamon -- Itinerant creeds: the Chinese northern frontier / Paola Demattè -- The dig at the end of the world: archaeology and apocalypse. Tourism in the valley of armageddon / Isaac Morrison -- Power of place: ruler, landscape, and ritual space at the sanctuaries of Labraunda and Mamurt Kale in Asia Minor / Christina Williamson -- Transforming the surroundings and its impact on cult rituals: the case study of Artemis Mounichia in the fifth century / Chryssanthi Papadopoulou -- The sacred houses in neolithic Wasan society / Chih-hua Chiang and Yi-chang Liu -- Putting religious ritual in its place: on some ways humans' cognitive predilections influence the locations and shapes of religious rituals / Robert N. McCauley -- The aptitude for sacred space / Ian B. Straughn.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL600 .L63 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903437412

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Claudia Moser and Cecelia Feldman -- Linear reflections: ritual memory and material repetition at the Thirteen Altars at Lavinium / Claudia Moser -- Re-placing the Nile: water and mimesis in the Roman practice of Egyptian religion at Pergamon -- Itinerant creeds: the Chinese northern frontier / Paola Demattè -- The dig at the end of the world: archaeology and apocalypse. Tourism in the valley of armageddon / Isaac Morrison -- Power of place: ruler, landscape, and ritual space at the sanctuaries of Labraunda and Mamurt Kale in Asia Minor / Christina Williamson -- Transforming the surroundings and its impact on cult rituals: the case study of Artemis Mounichia in the fifth century / Chryssanthi Papadopoulou -- The sacred houses in neolithic Wasan society / Chih-hua Chiang and Yi-chang Liu -- Putting religious ritual in its place: on some ways humans' cognitive predilections influence the locations and shapes of religious rituals / Robert N. McCauley -- The aptitude for sacred space / Ian B. Straughn.

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