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This volume explores the conceptualisation and construction of sacred space in a wide variety of faith traditions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the religions of Japan. Through the prism of layering, it demonstrates that vital questions about the location of the sacred and its reificaiton in the landscape were posed by religious believers across the early-modern world.
List of contents
Introduction
[Eric Nelson and Jonathan Wright]Section I: Shared and Contested Sacred Landscapes1. Jerusalem in the Reinvention of the Catholic Tradition, 1500-1700
[Megan C. Armstrong]2. Sacred Landscape in Early Modern Granada: Muslim Past and Christian Present
[A. Katie Harris]3. Temple to Town Hall: Sacred and Secular in Prague's Jewish Town
[Rachel L. Greenblatt]Section II: Sacred Landscapes, Ritual and Devotion4. Gods and Goddesses in the Ritual Landscape of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century K¿ñcipuram
[Ute Hüsken]5. Ritual, Public Space and Indigenous Engagement in Colonial Cuzco
[Gabriela Ramos]6. Layers of Memory and Devotion: Temples, Shrines and Pilgrimage in Early Modern Edo
[Barbara R. Ambros]Section III: Sacred Landscapes and Transition7. Transforming the Orthodox Landscape of Ottoman Istanbul During the Early Modern Period
[Hasan Çolak]8. From Prince-Bishopric to City-State: Nationalizing the Church and Creating a Republic in Reformation Geneva
[William G. Naphy]9. The Layered Theoscape of Philadelphia: The Quaker Experiment as a Religious Crucible
[Pink Dandelion]Section IV: Sacred Landscapes and Power10. Religion Royale in the Sacred Landscape of Paris: The Jesuit Church of Saint Louis and the Resacralization of Kingship in Early Bourbon France (1590-1650)
[Eric Nelson]11. The Basilica of St. John Lateran and the Post-Tridentine Papacy: Refashioning the Sacred Landscape
[Ingrid D. Rowland]12. Two Tales of One City: Herat Under the Early Modern Empires of the Timurids and Safavids
[Colin Mitchell]Epilogue: Jamme Masjid Mosque and Layered Landscapes
[Andrew Spicer]
About the author
Eric Nelson is Professor of History at Missouri State University.
Jonathan Wright is Honorary Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.
Summary
This volume explores the conceptualisation and construction of sacred space in a wide variety of faith traditions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the religions of Japan. Through the prism of layering, it demonstrates that vital questions about the location of the sacred and its reificaiton in the landscape were posed by religious believers across the early-modern world.
