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Layered landscapes : early modern religious space across faiths and cultures / edited by Eric Nelson and Jonathan Wright.

Contributor(s): Nelson, Eric, 1970- [editor.] | Wright, Jonathan, 1969- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xiii, 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781472459510; 1472459512Subject(s): Sacred space -- History -- 16th century | Sacred space -- History -- 17th century | Sacred space -- History -- 18th century | Religion and geography -- History -- 16th century | Religion and geography -- History -- 17th century | Religion and geography -- History -- 18th centuryDDC classification: 203/.5 LOC classification: BL580 | .L39 2017Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Eric Nelson and Jonathan Wright -- Shared and contested sacred landscapes -- Jerusalem in the reinvention of the Catholic tradition, 1500-1700 / Megan C. Armstrong -- Sacred landscape in early modern Granada: Muslim past and Christian present / A. Katie Harris -- Temple to town hall: sacred and secular in Prague's Jewish town / Rachel L. Greenblatt -- Sacred landscapes, ritual and devotion -- Gods and goddesses in the ritual landscape of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Kāñcipuram / Ute Hüsken -- Ritual, public space and indigenous engagement in colonial Cuzco / Gabriela Ramos -- Layers of memory and devotion: temples, shrines and pilgrimage in early modern Edo / Barbara R. Ambros -- Sacred landscapes and transition -- Transforming the Orthodox landscape of Ottoman Istanbul during the early modern period / Hasan Çolak -- From prince-bishopric to city-state: nationalizing the church and creating a republic in reformation Geneva / William G. Naphy -- The layered theoscape of Philadelphia: the Quaker experiment as a religious crucible / Pink Dandelion -- Sacred landscapes and power -- Religion royale in the sacred landscape of Paris: the Jesuit Church of Saint Louis and the resacralization of kingship in early Bourbon France (1590-1650) / Eric Nelson -- The basilica of St. John Lateran and the post-tridentine papacy: refashioning the sacred landscape / Ingrid D. Rowland -- Two tales of one city: Herat under the early modern empires of the Timurids and Safavids / Colin Mitchell -- Epilogue: Jamme Masjid mosque and layered landscapes / Andrew Spicer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Eric Nelson and Jonathan Wright -- Section I: Shared and contested sacred landscapes -- Jerusalem in the reinvention of the Catholic tradition, 1500-1700 / Megan C. Armstrong -- Sacred landscape in early modern Granada: Muslim past and Christian present / A. Katie Harris -- Temple to town hall: sacred and secular in Prague's Jewish town / Rachel L. Greenblatt -- Section II: Sacred landscapes, ritual and devotion -- Gods and goddesses in the ritual landscape of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Kāñcipuram / Ute Hüsken -- Ritual, public space and indigenous engagement in colonial Cuzco / Gabriela Ramos -- Layers of memory and devotion: temples, shrines and pilgrimage in early modern Edo / Barbara R. Ambros -- Section III: Sacred landscapes and transition -- Transforming the Orthodox landscape of Ottoman Istanbul during the early modern period / Hasan Çolak -- From prince-bishopric to city-state: nationalizing the church and creating a republic in reformation Geneva / William G. Naphy -- The layered theoscape of Philadelphia: the Quaker experiment as a religious crucible / Pink Dandelion -- Section IV: Sacred landscapes and power -- Religion royale in the sacred landscape of Paris: the Jesuit Church of Saint Louis and the resacralization of kingship in early Bourbon France (1590-1650) / Eric Nelson -- The basilica of St. John Lateran and the post-tridentine papacy: refashioning the sacred landscape / Ingrid D. Rowland -- Two tales of one city: Herat under the early modern empires of the Timurids and Safavids / Colin Mitchell -- Epilogue: Jamme Masjid mosque and layered landscapes / Andrew Spicer.

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