Sacred places and profane spaces essays in the geographics of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Title:
Sacred places and profane spaces essays in the geographics of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Author:
Scott, Jamie S.
ISBN:
9780313047695
Publication Information:
New York : Greenwood Press, 1991.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiv, 200 p.)
Series:
Contributions to the study of religion, no. 30
Contributions to the study of religion ; no. 30.
Contents:
Introduction : the geographics of religion / Jamie S. Scott and Paul Simpson-Housley -- The Jewish religion and spatial and communal organization : the implementation of Jewish religious law in the building of urban neighborhoods and Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine at the close of the nineteenth century / Yossi Katz -- The politics of sacred place : Jerusalem's Temple Mount/al-haram al-sharif / Roger Friedland and Richard D. Hecht -- The Temple and the Garden of Eden in Ezekiel, the Book of the Watchers, and the wisdom of ben Sira / Martha Himmelfarb -- The iconic self : Luther, culture, and landscape in Finland / Ronald Bordessa -- Diversities of divine presence : women's geography in the Christian tradition / Ellen Ross -- Mapping an apocalyptic world / Leonard L. Thompson.
Sacred circles : Iranian (Zoroastrian and Shi'ite Muslim) feasting and pilgrimage cirucits / Michael J. Fischer -- The Mecca pilgrimage in the formation of Islam in modern Egypt / Juan Eduardo Campo -- Sacred geography in Islam / Annemarie Schimmel -- Afterword : the geographics of religion in a postmodern environment / Jamie S. Scott and Paul Simpson-Housley.
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