Title & Author:

Sacred space : shrine, city, land / edited by Benjamin Z. Kedar and R.J. Zwi Werblowsky.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : New York University Press, 1998.

Description:

348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Proceedings from the international conference in memory of Joshua Prawer held in Jerusalem, June 8-13, 1992.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction : mindscape and landscape / R.J. Zwi Werblowsky -- Constructing a small place / Jonathan Z. Smith -- A city of many temples : Ḫattuša, capital of the Hittites / Itamar Singer -- The sacred sea / Abraham Malamat -- Some Biblical concepts of sacred place / Sara Japhet -- The temple in the Hellenistic period and in Judaism / Doron Mendels -- The Divinity as place and time and the holy place in Jewish mysticism / Haviva Pedaya -- Byzantium's dual Holy Land / Evelyne Patlagean -- Intellectual activities in a holy city : Jerusalem in the twelfth century / Benjamin Z. Kedar -- The harem : a major source of Islam's military might / David Ayalon -- Holy body, holy society : conflicting medieval structural conceptions / Kenneth R. Stow -- Cities as cultic centres in Germany and Italy during the Early and High Middle Ages / Alfred Haverkamp -- Ambivalence and longing : Vyāsa's curse on Kāśī / David Shulman -- Geotyping sacred space : the case of Mount Hiko in Japan / Allan G. Grapard -- The cult of Santa María Tonantzin, Virgin of Guadelupe in Mexico / Richard Nebel -- The Muslim holy cities as foci of Islamic revivalism in the eighteenth century / Nehemia Levtzion and Gideon Weigert -- Hallowed land in the theory and practice of modern nationalism / Hedva Ben-Israel -- The role of charismatic dreams in the creation of sacred sites in present-day Israel / Yoram Bilu -- Facing a holy space : psychiatric hospitalization of tourists in Jerusalem / Moshe Kalian and Eliezer Wiztu.

Summary:

"In Sacred Space, Benjamin Z. Kedar and R.J. Zwi Werblowsky have compiled a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring a broad array of ancient and contemporary holy places. The book reviews sacred spaces of the ancient religions - Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Indian and East-Asian religions - and discusses how these spaces have been conceptualized and experienced. Sacred Space provides readers with original and illuminating examples of the myriad ways in which we perceive and construct sacred space."--Jacket.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0814746802
9780814746806

Subject:

Sacred space Congresses.
Lieux sacrés Congrès.
Sacred space.
Heiligtum
Aufsatzsammlung
Holy places.

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Prawer, Joshua.
Ḳedar, B. Z.
Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi, 1924-2015.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 190798
Call No.: ID BL580.S25; ID:96-B416
Status: Available