Experience of the Sacred

Experience of the Sacred

Author: Sumner B. Twiss

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780874515305

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A unique and highly accessible anthology of the best in classical and contemporary thought on the phenomenonology of religion.


Architecture of the Sacred

Architecture of the Sacred

Author: Bonna D. Wescoat

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-10-13

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 110737829X

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In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative spaces in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine civilizations. Collectively they demonstrate the multiple ways in which works of architecture and their settings were active agents in the ritual process. Architecture did not merely host events; rather, it magnified and elevated them, interacting with rituals facilitating the construction of ceremony. This book examines comparatively the ways in which ideas and situations generated by the interaction of place, built environment, ritual action, and memory contributed to the cultural formulation of the sacred experience in different religious faiths.


Spaces for the Sacred

Spaces for the Sacred

Author: Philip Sheldrake

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2001-01-31

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780801868610

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In Spaces for the Sacred, Philip Sheldrake brilliantly reveals the connection between our rootedness in the places we inhabit and the construction of our personal and religious identities. Based on the prestigious Hulsean Lectures he delivered at the University of Cambridge, Sheldrake's book examines the sacred narratives which derive from both overtly religious sites such as cathedrals, and secular ones, like the Millennium Dome, and it suggests how Christian theological and spiritual traditions may contribute creatively to current debates about place.


Experiences of the Sacred

Experiences of the Sacred

Author: Linh Hoang

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-31

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9781516598236

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Experiences of the Sacred: Introductory Readings in Religion provides students with a curated compilation of articles written on the different religious traditions. The articles provide students with valuable insight into the particular worldviews and beliefs of each religion. The text provides an overview of seven religious traditions, which are organized into three major categories: Dharmic traditions (Hinduism and Buddhism); Chinese traditions (Confucianism and Daoism); and Abrahamic traditions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). The readings on the religions are introduced by material on the cultures in which they were created, providing students with rich historical and cultural context, followed by overviews, essays, and descriptions of each tradition. Suggestions for further reading and reflection questions throughout the text encourage additional exploration and consideration of the material. Providing students with a critical knowledge base of major religious traditions, Experiences of the Sacred is an ideal textbook for foundational courses in world religion.


Sacred Places

Sacred Places

Author: James Swan

Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Published: 1990-04

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780939680665

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Supporting Lovelock's thesis that the Earth is a living being, Swan suggests natural sites such as Serpent Mound, Machu Pichu, and Kilauea Center have the power to move us in ways modern science cannot explain.


The Sacred and the Profane

The Sacred and the Profane

Author: Mircea Eliade

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780156792011

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Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares with that of the nonreligious. This book serves as an excellent introduction to the history of religion, but its perspective also emcompasses philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, and psychology. It will appeal to anyone seeking to discover the potential dimensions of human existence. -- P. [4] of cover.


Gods of the City

Gods of the City

Author: Robert A. Orsi

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1999-07-22

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780253212764

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1000 Sacred Places

1000 Sacred Places

Author: Christoph Engels

Publisher: H F Ullmann

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783833154805

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A world travel to religious and spiritual sites. The book invites readers to embark on a spiritual journey through the history and the cultures of the world.


The Psychology of Religion and Place

The Psychology of Religion and Place

Author: Victor Counted

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-01

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 303028848X

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This book examines the role of religious and spiritual experiences in people’s understanding of their environment. The contributors consider how understandings and experiences of religious and place connections are motivated by the need to seek and maintain contact with perceptual objects, so as to form meaningful relationship experiences. The volume is one of the first scholarly attempts to discuss the psychological links between place and religious experiences.The chapters within provide insights for understanding how people’s experiences with geographical places and the sacred serve as agencies for meaning-making, pro-social behaviour, and psychological adjustment in everyday life.