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Religion, Culture, and Sacred Space 2008 Edition
Contributor(s): Smith, M. (Author)
ISBN: 0230608302     ISBN-13: 9780230608306
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
OUR PRICE:   $52.24  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 2008
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Annotation: This book proposes a new way of thinking about how a place becomes sacred and investigates the cultural considerations that influence the way a place becomes fixed in a society's consciousness. Smith argues that intense emotional attachments to places are constructed by texts that attach a narrative to the physical landscape. Through an examination of a wide range of sites--including Abydos in ancient Egypt, Delos in classical Greece, and Mecca in medieval Islam--a new theory of the human relationship to space is elaborated. His is a theory that has implications for the way we go about preserving landscapes as well as the way we understand our own experience of the world.
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | History
Dewey: 203.5
LCCN: 2008007164
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.70 lbs) 184 pages
 
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Religion, Culture, and Sacred Spaces is a comparative exploration into the nature of the human relationship to physical space advancing the startling thesis that the human capacity for narrative and identity imbues landscapes with meaning and sacredness.