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Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0152699538
A collection of poems about different places around the world that are considered sacred by various cultures, including Mecca, the Ganges River, and Christian cathedrals.
Author : Thomas Coomans
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789058678423
Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. This volume explores both the cultural developments that have shaped them and their varied multidimensional levels of significance.
Author : David L. Carmichael,Jane Hubert,Brian Reeves,Audhild Schanche
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135633202
Sacred Sites, Sacred Places explores the concept of 'sacred' and what it means and implies to people in differing cultures. It looks at why people regard some parts of the land as special and why this ascription remains constant in some cultures and changes in others. Archaeologists, legislators and those involved in heritage management sometimes encounter conflict with local populations over sacred sites. With the aid of over 70 illustrations the book examines the extreme importance of such sacred places in all cultures and the necessity of accommodating those intimate beliefs which are such a vital part of ongoing cultural identity. Sacred Sites, Sacred Places therefore will be of help to those who wish to be non-destructive in their conservation and excavation practices. This book is unique in attempting to describe the belief systems surrounding the existence of sacred sites, and at the same time bringing such beliefs and practices into relationship with the practical problems of everyday heritage management. The geographical coverage of the book is exceptionally wide and its variety of contributors, including indigenous peoples, archaeologists and heritage professionals, is unrivalled in any other publication.
Author : National Geographic
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1426203365
A listing of five hundred sites new and old, famous and unknown, that have been used to connect humanity with its gods.
Author : Brad Olsen
Publisher : CCC Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sacred space
ISBN : 1888729023
A travel guide to the world's most sacred locales offers travel tips and detailed maps to the Great Pyramid, Easter Island, the Himalayas, Ayers Rock, Chaco Canyon, Jericho, Delphi, Stonehenge, and Mayan ruins, among other sites of spiritual importance. Original.
Author : James Swan
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0939680661
Supporting Lovelock's thesis that the Earth is a living being, Swan suggests natural sites such as Serpent Mound, Machu Pichu, and Kilauea Center have the power to move us in ways modern science cannot explain.
Author : Philemon Sturges
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religions
ISBN : 0399233172
Describes various types of space which are sacred to different religions, including churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, and other shrines.
Author : Tsypylma Darieva,Florian Mühlfried,Kevin Tuite
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785337826
Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with religious conviviality. Based on fresh ethnographies in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Russian Federation, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus. In exploring the effects of de-secularization, growing institutional control over hybrid sacred sites, and attempts to review social boundaries between the religious and the secular, these essays give way to an emergent Caucasus viewed from the ground up: dynamic, continually remaking itself, within shifting and indefinite frontiers.
Author : Battista Silvia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Sacred space
ISBN : 1789383889
Author : Brad Olsen
Publisher : CCC Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1888729120
Combining current trends, academic theories, and historical insights, this travel guide brings both lesser-known and famous European spiritual locales into perspective by explaining the significance of each sacred site. The cultural relevance, history, and spirituality of each site—including Stonehenge, the Acropolis, Mont Saint Michel, Pompeii, and Saint Peter’s Basilica—are explained, creating a moving and artistic travel experience. Each destination—with selections spanning more than 15 countries throughout Europe—is accompanied by easy-to-follow maps and directions.
Author : Andrew Gulliford
Publisher : Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050185787
The issues of returning human remains, curating sacred objects, and preserving tribal traditions are addressed to provide the reader with a full picture of Native Americans' struggle to keep their heritage alive."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Christoph Engels
Publisher : H F Ullmann
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Church architecture
ISBN : 3833154802
A world travel to religious and spiritual sites. The book invites readers to embark on a spiritual journey through the history and the cultures of the world.
Author : Antony Mason
Publisher : Quercus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Sacred space
ISBN : 1782068546
50 of the most spectacular holy sites in the world.
Author : Rudolph Wurlitzer
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : UCSC:32106014596396
Hard Travel to Sacred Places is the record of a personal odyssey through Southeast Asia, an external and internal journey through grief and the painful realities of a decadent age. Wurlitzer—novelist, screenwriter, and Buddhist practitioner—travels with his wife, photographer Lynn Davis, on a photo assignment to the sacred sites of Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia. Heavy Westernization, sex clubs, aging hippies and expatriates, and political dissidents provide a vivid contrast to the peace that Wurlitzer and Davis seek, still reeling from the death of their son in a car accident. As Davis with her camera searches for a thread of meaning among the artifacts and relics of a more enlightened age, Wurlitzer grasps at the wisdom of the Buddhist teachings in an effort to assuage his grief. His journal chronicles the survival of age-old truths in a world gone mad.
Author : Philip Carr-Gomm
Publisher : Quercus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-09
Category : Pilgrims and pilgrimages
ISBN : 1847242405
Includes sites from Africa, Middle East, Europe, The Americas, Oceania, and Asia.