A Sacred City

Author : Ziauddin Sardar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620402689

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Mecca by Ziauddin Sardar Pdf

Mecca is, for many, the heart of Islam. It is the birthplace of Muhammad, the direction to which Muslims turn when they pray, and the site of pilgrimage that annually draws some three million Muslims from all corners of the world. Yet the significance of Mecca is more than purely religious. What happens in Mecca and how Muslims think about the political and cultural history of Mecca has had and continues to have a profound influence on world events to this day. In this insighful book, Ziauddin Sardar unravels the meaning and significance of Mecca. Tracing its history, from its origins as a "barren valley?? in the desert to its evolution as a trading town and sudden emergence as the religious center of a world empire, Sardar examines the religious struggles and rebellions in Mecca that have significantly shaped Muslim culture. An illuminative, lyrical, and witty blend of history, reportage, and memoir, Mecca reflects all that is profound and enlightening, curious and amusing about Mecca and takes us behind the closed doors to one of the most important places in the world today.

Author : James Theodore Bent,David Heinrich Müller,John George Garson
Publisher : London ; New York : Longmans, Green
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Ethiopia
ISBN : BSB:BSB11630861

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The Sacred City of the Ethiopians by James Theodore Bent,David Heinrich Müller,John George Garson Pdf

Author : Theodore C. Van Alst
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780826362865

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Sacred City by Theodore C. Van Alst Pdf

Our young narrator now heads deeper into the heart of the city and himself, accompanied by ancestors and spirits who help him and the reader see that Chicago was, is, and always will be Indian Country.

Author : Matthew Atmore Sherring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Hindu temples
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041509766

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The Sacred City of the Hindus by Matthew Atmore Sherring Pdf

Author : Louis I. Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : NWU:35556040791816

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A Sacred City by Louis I. Hamilton Pdf

The eleventh-century reform movement was centred on a ritual: the investment of bishops with the signs of their sacred and secular authority. This book provides an examination of consecration, placing Gregorian reform and investiture conflict back into their original liturgical framework.

Author : Stephen Scully
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015019607772

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Homer and the Sacred City by Stephen Scully Pdf

The importance of the polis in Homeric literature is most evident in the Iliad, a poem concerned in large measure with the holy city of Troy. Stephen Scully here deepens our understanding of both the poetic and the social significance of the city in Homer through a close analysis of the poem's formulaic language. Drawing on scholarship in literary studies, archaeology, and comparative religion, Scully demonstrates that it is the urban setting of the Iliad, as well as the collision of the individual fates of its characters, which generates its most profound tragic themes.

Author : Steven M. Parish
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0231084390

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Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City by Steven M. Parish Pdf

Explores the interrelationship of mind, self, emotion and the development of moral consciousness in the Nepalese city of Bhaktapur. The author investigates how the citizens have developed moral awareness in the context of cultural life.

Author : Jeff J. Tyler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004475557

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Lord of the Sacred City: The Episcopus exclusus in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany by Jeff J. Tyler Pdf

Urban histories have emphasized the rise of civic autonomy and proto-democracy. Based on chronicle and archival sources, this volume focuses on German bishops, former lords of the city and fierce opponents of civic freedom. The author investigates how bishops contested exclusion from political, economic, and religious dimensions of civic life (Episcopus exclusus), which culminated in the Protestant Reformation. Four chapters are devoted to episcopal expulsion throughout Germany and the cities of Constance and Augsburg in particular. A remarkable section explores the puzzle of the bishop's civic survival in the later Middle Ages, made possible through episcopal ritual. The emphasis on city, bishop, and ritual will be of special interest to urban historians as well as to scholars of medieval religion, the reformation, church history, church/state relations, and social history.

Author : Dan Gibson
Publisher : Independent Scholar's Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1927581222

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Early Islamic Qiblas by Dan Gibson Pdf

For the first time in history Dan Gibson has undertaken a comprehensive survey of Islamic mosques from the first two centuries of Islam. Using this data, Gibson demonstrates that Muhammad and the first four caliphs never knew of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. This book shatters old perspective about Islamic history and is unlocking the truth about Islam.

Author : Steven Kellmeyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0971812810

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Sex and the Sacred City by Steven Kellmeyer Pdf

Indeholder: Introduction. The Trinity. Creation. The Fall. The Incarnation. The Sacraments. Married Life. Celibacy. Family Life. Conclusion.

Author : Matthew Atmore Sherring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Hindu temples
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010741064

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The Sacred City of the Hindus by Matthew Atmore Sherring Pdf

Author : Barbara E. Mundy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781477317136

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The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City by Barbara E. Mundy Pdf

Winner, Book Prize in Latin American Studies, Colonial Section of Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2016 ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin American Art/Arvey Foundation, 2016 The capital of the Aztec empire, Tenochtitlan, was, in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. Built on an island in the middle of a shallow lake, its population numbered perhaps 150,000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around the lake shores. In 1521, at the height of Tenochtitlan's power, which extended over much of Central Mexico, Hernando Cortés and his followers conquered the city. Cortés boasted to King Charles V of Spain that Tenochtitlan was "destroyed and razed to the ground." But was it? Drawing on period representations of the city in sculptures, texts, and maps, The Death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the Life of Mexico City builds a convincing case that this global capital remained, through the sixteenth century, very much an Amerindian city. Barbara E. Mundy foregrounds the role the city's indigenous peoples, the Nahua, played in shaping Mexico City through the construction of permanent architecture and engagement in ceremonial actions. She demonstrates that the Aztec ruling elites, who retained power even after the conquest, were instrumental in building and then rebuilding the city. Mundy shows how the Nahua entered into mutually advantageous alliances with the Franciscans to maintain the city's sacred nodes. She also focuses on the practical and symbolic role of the city's extraordinary waterworks—the product of a massive ecological manipulation begun in the fifteenth century—to reveal how the Nahua struggled to maintain control of water resources in early Mexico City.

Author : Jayne Engle,Julian Agyeman,Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000601350

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Sacred Civics by Jayne Engle,Julian Agyeman,Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook Pdf

Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature. The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a range of backgrounds to question assumptions that are fused deep into the code of how societies operate, and to draw on extraordinary wisdom from ancient Indigenous traditions; to social and political movements like Black Lives Matter, the commons, and wellbeing economies; to technologies for participatory futures where people collaborate to reimagine and change culture. Looking at cities and human settlements as the sites of transformation, the book focuses on values, commons, and wisdom to demonstrate that how we choose to live together, to recognize interdependencies, to build, grow, create, and love—matters. Using multiple methodologies to integrate varied knowledge forms and practices, this truly ground-breaking volume includes contributions from renowned and rising voices. Sacred Civics is a must-read for anyone interested in intersectional discussions on social justice, inclusivity, participatory design, healthy communities, and future cities.

Author : Harry Munt,Thomas Henry Robert Munt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107042131

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The Holy City of Medina by Harry Munt,Thomas Henry Robert Munt Pdf

Examines the emergence of Medina as a holy city, focusing on the historical developments of the first three Islamic centuries.

Author : Steven Heine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195386202

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Sacred High City, Sacred Low City by Steven Heine Pdf

In Sacred High City, Sacred Low City, Steven Heine argues that lived religion in Japan functions as an integral part of daily life; any apparent lack of interest masks a fundamental commitment to participating regularly in diverse, though diffused, religious practices. The book uses case studies of religious sites at two representative but contrasting Tokyo neighborhoods as a basis for reflecting on this apparently contradictory quality. In what ways does Japan continue to carry on and adapt tradition, and to what extent has modern secular society lost touch with the traditional elements of religion? Or does Japanese religiosity reflect another, possibly postmodern, alternative beyond the dichotomy of sacred and secular, in which religious differences as well as a seeming indifference to religion are encompassed as part of a contemporary lifestyle?