Oxford Handbook of Religious Space

How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience? This handbook brings together thirty-three essays addressing these questions using a range of methods and approaches to examine specific spaces or types of spaces around the world and across time.

Table des matières

• List of Illustrations


• Contributors


• Table of Approaches and Themes


• Introduction: Thinking about Religious Space: An Introduction to Approaches


• Jeanne Halgren Kilde


• Part I. Theory and Method for Approaching Religious Spaces and Locations


• 1. Conceptualizing Space and Place: Genealogies of Change in the Study of Religion


• Juan E. Campo


• 2. Hermeneutics of Space: Sacred Space


• Michael J. Crosbie


• 3. Urbanism and Religious Space


• Paul-François Tremlett


• 4. Shared Space, Or Mixed?


• Robert M. Hayden


• 5. Decommissioning and Reuse of Liturgical Architectures: Historical Processes and Temporal Dimensions


• Andrea Longhi


• 6. The Impermanence of Religious Space: Three Approaches to Change in the American Religioscape


• Jeanne Halgren Kilde


• 7. Planetary Identities: Globalization, Climate Change and Meaning-Making Practices


• Whitney A. Bauman


• Part II. Religious Spaces and Buildings across the Globe


• A. Asia


• 8. Whose Place Is it? Layers of Community and Meaning in the Land of Shinto and Power Spots


• Caleb Carter


• 9. Religious Place/Space in Premodern China


• Wei-Cheng Lin


• 10. National Treasures vs. Alien Species: Religious Spaces, Raccoons, and National Identity in Contemporary Japan


• Barbara R. Ambros


• 11. Visualizing Himalayan Buddhist Sacred Sites in 3D/VR: Pedagogy and Partnership


• Lauren Leve and Bradley Erickson


• B. Middle East


• 12. Form and Function in the Ancient Synagogue: Evidence from Roman and Byzantine Palestine and the Diaspora


• Marilyn J. Chiat


• 13. A Little Bit of Evil: Masjid Kufa in Early Twelver Shi'ism


• Najam Haider


• 14. Mediated Spaces of Collective Ritual: Sacred Selfies at the Hajj


• Nadia Caidi and Mariam Karim


• 15. (In)visible Priorities: Epigraphic Power and Identity at a Jordanian State Mosque


• David Simonowitz


• C. Africa and the African Diaspora


• 16. Exploration of Religious Spaces in Western Africa: Combining Approaches to Understand Spaces


• Daniel Dei


• 17. Religious Spaces as Tourist Sites in Ghana


• Alice Matilda Nsiah


• 18. Sacred Space in 19th Century Cape Town: Mosque, City, Landscape and a Radical Empiricism of the Spatial


• Ozayr Saloojee


• 19. Mapping the Spiritual Baptist Universe: Black Atlantic Cosmography and the Spatiality of Spirit in Trinidad and Tobago


• Brendan Jamal Thornton


• D. Europe and the Mediterranean


• 20. The Spaces of Roman Religion and Christianity in Late Antiquity


• Béatrice Caseau Chevallier


• 21. Presence and Performance: Orthodox Spaces of the Eastern Roman Empire


• Amy Papalexandrou


• 22. Remnants of Israel: Jewish Spaces and Landscapes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe


• Jessica Renee Streit and Barry L. Stiefel


• 23. The Religious Landscape and its Architecture in Contemporary Europe


• Esteban Fernández-Cobián


• E. The Americas


• 24. Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Religious Spaces in Mesoamerica


• Brent K.S. Woodfill


• 25. Protestant Architecture in Latin America


• Rodrigo Vidal Rojas


• 26. Roman Catholic Sacred Space


• Leonard Norman Primiano


• 27. Protestant Spaces in North America.


• David R. Bains


• 28. Eastern Orthodox Spaces in America


• Nicholas Denysenko


• 29. Diasporic Sacred Spaces: The Case of Boundary Making at an American Sufi Shrine


• Merin Shobhana Xavier


• 30. Women's Mosques: Spaces to Rethink Gender and Religious Authority


• Irum Shiekh


• Part III. Memorials, Shrines, and Cemeteries


• 31. Sites of Miracles and other Holy Places: The Santuario de Chimayó as Case Study


• Brett Hendrickson


• 32. Situating the Dead: Cemeteries as Material, Symbolic, and Relational Space


• Avril Madrell and Brenda Mathijssen


• 33. Fundament and Abyss: Public Religion at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial


• David Lê

A propos de l'auteur

Jeanne Halgren Kilde is the Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on religious space and architecture, which she locates within social, cultural, and religious contexts. She is the author of several publications in this area, including When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship; and Sacred Power, Sacred Space: An Introduction to Christian Architecture. Kilde was a founding member and co-chair of the Space, Place and Religious Meaning program unit of the American Academy of Religion.

Résumé

How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience? This handbook brings together thirty-three essays addressing these questions using a range of methods and approaches to examine specific spaces or types of spaces around the world and across time. The authors here represent and draw upon many disciplines: religious studies and religion, anthropology, archaeology, architectural history and architecture, cultural and religious history, sociology, geography, gender and women's studies and others. Their essays are snapshots, each offering a specific way to think about the religious space(s) under consideration: Roman shrines, Jewish synagogues, Christian churches, Muslim and Catholic shrines, indigenous spaces in Central America and East Africa, cemeteries, memorials, and more.

Some overarching principles emerge from these snapshots. The authors demonstrate that religious spaces are simultaneously individual and collective, personal and social; that they are influenced by culture, tradition, and immediate circumstances; and that they participate in various relationships of power. These essays demonstrate that religious spaces do not simply provide a convenient background for religious action but are also constituent of religious meaning and religious experience; they play an active role in creating, expressing, broadcasting, maintaining, and transforming religious meanings and religious experiences. By learning how religious spaces function, readers of this collection will gain a deeper understanding of religious life and religions themselves.

Texte suppl.

This is an excellent read for a broad range of scholars and students interested in novel approaches to research about religious space, both past and present.

Détails du produit

• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 29.09.2022
• EAN: 9780190874988
• ISBN: 978-0-19-087498-8
• Pages: 616
• Thème: Oxford Handbooks Series
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Philosophie, religion > Religion: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Architecture; Islam, RELIGION / Antiquities & Archaeology, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious, Ancient / Biblical Israel, Archaeology by period / region, Religious buildings, Architecture: religious buildings, Biblical Archaeology