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Medieval Practices of Space
The contributors to this volume cross disciplinary and theoretical boundaries to read the words, metaphors, images, signs, poetic illusions, and identities with which medieval men and women used space and place to add meaning to the world. Contributors: Kathleen Biddick, Charles Burroughs, Michael Camille, Tom Conley, Donnalee Dox, Jody Enders, Valerie K. J. Flint, Andrzej Piotrowski, and Daniel Lord Smail.
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The Thing about Religion
Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and
meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines.
David Morgan has led the way in radically broadening that framework
to encompass the understanding that religions are fundamentally
embodied, material forms of practice. This concise primer shows
readers how to study what has come to be termed material
religion -the ways religious meaning is enacted in the material
world. Material religion includes the things people wear, eat,
sing, touch, look at, create, and avoid. It also encompasses the
places where religion and the social realities of everyday life,
including gender, class, and race, intersect in physical ways. This
interdisciplinary approach brings religious studies into
conversation with art history, anthropology, and other fields. In
the book, Morgan lays out a range of theories, terms, and concepts
and shows how they work together to center materiality in the study
of religion. Integrating carefully curated visual evidence, Morgan
then applies these ideas and methods to case studies across a
variety of religious traditions, modeling step-by-step analysis and
emphasizing the importance of historical context. The Thing
about Religion will be an essential tool for experts and
students alike. Two free, downloadable course syllabi created by
the author are available online.
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Space, Time, and Presence in the Icon
This book contributes to the re-emerging field of 'theology through the arts' by proposing a way of approaching one of the most challenging theological concepts - divine timelessness - through the principle of construction of space in the icon. One of the main objectives of this book is to discuss critically the implications of 'reverse perspective', which is especially characteristic of Byzantine and Byzantining art. Drawing on the work of Pavel Florensky, one of the foremost Russian religious philosophers at the beginning of the 20th century, Antonova shows that Florensky's concept of 'supplementary planes' can be used productively within a new approach to the question. Antonova works up new criteria for the understanding of how space and time can be handled in a way that does not reverse standard linear perspective (as conventionally claimed) but acts in its own way to create eternalised images which are not involved with perspective at all. Arguing that the structure of the icon is determined by a conception of God who exits in past, present, and future, simultaneously, Antonova develops an iconography of images done in the Byzantine style both in the East and in the West which is truer to their own cultural context than is generally provided for by western interpretations. This book draws upon philosophy, theology and liturgy to see how relatively abstract notions of a deity beyond time and space enter images made by painters.
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‘He Saw Heaven Opened’: Heavenly Temple and Universal Mission in Luke-Acts
Numerous scholars have argued that in Luke-Acts the location of sacred space or divine presence passes from the Jerusalem temple to Jesus, Christian believers, or both; in Acts, this transfer is understood as integral to the universal mission. The present article argues that such studies overlook the important motif of heaven as temple, which plays a role in Jesus’ trial and crucifixion and the Stephen and Cornelius episodes. Using Edward Soja's spatial theory, previous studies’ binary categorisation of temple space is critiqued. The heavenly temple disrupts and reconstitutes understandings of sacred space, and thus undergirds the universal spread of the Way.
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Space and Time in the Religious Life of the Near East
Space and time are basic features of the world-view, even the theology, of many religions, ancient and modern. How did the world begin, and how will it end? What is the importance of religious architecture in symbolizing sacred space? Where and how do we locate the self? The divine world? Wyatt's textbook treats ancient Near Eastern religions from a perspective that allows us to access how religion shapes and orders the world of human thought and experience. The book is designed especially for classroom use, each chapter provided with suggested reading, copious quotations from ancient texts and summaries. The subject matter is treated by topic, not according to individal religions, so that the reader understands the essential points of similarity and difference between religious systems and how they model their universe.
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Crematoria, Barracks, Gateway: Survivors' Return Visits to the Memory Landscapes of Auschwitz
Drawing primarily on oral history interviews, alongside documentary films and memoirs of return, this article examines a series of sites—crematoria, barracks and gateway—in contemporary Auschwitz where Holocaust survivors adopt multiple roles. Rather than viewing contemporary Auschwitz as simply a passive canvas on which survivors enact rituals, the article argues for a more dynamic relationship between landscape and memory. Not only is Auschwitz revisited by survivors as a series of interconnected micro-sites rather than a homogenous memorial landscape, but also as a simultaneously symbolic and material multisensory landscape that enters into the “muscular consciousness.”
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Sacred space
The identification and positioning of sacred space within contemporary contexts has, to date, received scant attention. In reflecting upon a broad spectrum of conceptions of what constitutes sacred space, this collection of interdisciplinary essays presents a new perspective on an area that is developing into an important theological and philosophical concept.
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