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Author : Martin Lev
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Jerusalem
ISBN : UCSC:32106008703735
The sixth in a series of guidebooks for the growing number of modern pilgrims is devoted to Jerusalem--the Holy City of the Jews, the Christians, and the Moslems. 36 halftones, 28 maps.
Author : Martin Lev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Jerusalem
ISBN : 0747102015
Author : Joseph J. Hobbs
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292730946
Amid the high mountains of Egypt's southern Sinai Peninsula stands Jebel Musa, "Mount Moses," revered by most Christians and Muslims as Mount Sinai. (Jewish tradition holds that Mount Sinai should remain terra incognita, unlocated, and does not associate it with this mountain.) In this fascinating study, Joseph Hobbs draws on geography and archaeology, Biblical and Quranic accounts, and the experiences of people ranging from Christian monks to Bedouin shepherds to casual tourists to explore why this mountain came to be revered as a sacred place and how that very perception now threatens its fragile ecology and its sense of holy solitude. After discussing the physical characteristics of Jebel Musa and the debate that selected it as the most probable Mount Sinai, Hobbs fully describes all Christian and Muslim sacred sites around the mountain. He views Mount Sinai from the perspectives of the centuries-long inhabitants of the region—the monks of the Monastery of St. Katherine and the Jabaliya Bedouins—and of tourists and pilgrims, from medieval Europeans to modern travelers dispirited by Western industrialization. Hobbs concludes his account with the recent international debate over whether to build a cable car on Mount Sinai and with an unflinching description of the negative impact of tourism on the delicate desert environment. His book raises important, troubling questions for everyone concerned about the fate of the earth's wild and sacred places.
Author : Ron E. Hassner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801460418
Sacred sites offer believers the possibility of communing with the divine and achieving deeper insight into their faith. Yet their spiritual and cultural importance can lead to competition as religious groups seek to exclude rivals from practicing potentially sacrilegious rituals in the hallowed space and wish to assert their own claims. Holy places thus create the potential for military, theological, or political clashes, not only between competing religious groups but also between religious groups and secular actors. In War on Sacred Grounds, Ron E. Hassner investigates the causes and properties of conflicts over sites that are both venerated and contested; he also proposes potential means for managing these disputes. Hassner illustrates a complex and poorly understood political dilemma with accounts of the failures to reach settlement at Temple Mount/Haram el-Sharif, leading to the clashes of 2000, and the competing claims of Hindus and Muslims at Ayodhya, which resulted in the destruction of the mosque there in 1992. He also addresses more successful compromises in Jerusalem in 1967 and Mecca in 1979. Sacred sites, he contends, are particularly prone to conflict because they provide valuable resources for both religious and political actors yet cannot be divided. The management of conflicts over sacred sites requires cooperation, Hassner suggests, between political leaders interested in promoting conflict resolution and religious leaders who can shape the meaning and value that sacred places hold for believers. Because a reconfiguration of sacred space requires a confluence of political will, religious authority, and a window of opportunity, it is relatively rare. Drawing on the study of religion and the study of politics in equal measure, Hassner's account offers insight into the often-violent dynamics that come into play at the places where religion and politics collide.
Author : John Michell
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Travel
ISBN : IND:30000060972027
Author : John Michell,Christine Rhone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-24
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594777578
The symbolism and use of the number twelve in organizing ancient societies • Connects the zodiac, the twelve months of the year, and the political divisions of ancient nations • Explores the sacred geography of ancient landscapes in Europe and Israel Throughout the world--in countries as far apart as China, Ireland, Iceland, and Madagascar--there survive records and traditions of whole nations being divided into twelve tribes and twelve regions, each corresponding to one of the twelve signs of the zodiac and to one of the twelve months of the year. Best known are the twelve tribes of Israel under King Solomon, but there have been many others. Wherever they occur, they are associated with an ideal social order and a golden age of humanity. Exploring examples of these twelve-tribe societies, John Michell and Christine Rhone explain the blueprint for this organizational structure and look at the musical, mythological, and astronomical enchantments that kept these societies in harmony with the cosmos. They also examine the astrological landscapes of classical Greece, the aligned St. Michael sanctuaries of Europe, and the true site and function of the Temple in Jerusalem. They show that the sacred geography of these sites was part of an ancient code of knowledge that produced harmony between nature and humanity and is as relevant to our present and future as it was to our past.
Author : R. D. Kernohan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802808891
"For centuries pilgrims have travelled to the Holy Land in pursuit of what one Victorian pilgrim called "the desire and dream of a lifetime." This distinctive volume brings together personal stories of journeys to Palestine that reveal the difficulties in fulfilling that desire and show how travellers - some famous, some obscure - found the reality as compared to the dream." "Drawing on testimonies of travellers from the time of the Crusades to the present day, R. D. Kernohan describes the hazards and uncertainties as well as the joys of pilgrimage. His book is enlivened by details about what travellers ate, drank, and paid during their journeys in addition to their feelings of spiritual devotion and their intense, even ecstatic experiences upon reaching Jerusalem." "The road to Zion is indeed no ordinary highway. Kernohan also deals clearly and frankly with great themes of history and theology, with what travellers saw of dramatic changes and bitter conflicts in the Holy Land, and with how political and social changes have affected - and still affect - patterns of pilgrimage to the land where Christians, Jews, and Muslims live in uneasy coexistence."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : John Murray (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Palestine
ISBN : UCBK:B000916684
Author : William Pembroke Fetridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 906 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Europe
ISBN : NYPL:33433066588389
Author : William Pembroke Fetridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001103924341
Author : William Pembroke Fetridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Europe
ISBN : HARVARD:32044055000277
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752510331
Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.
Author : John Murray (Firm)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026448319
Author : W. Pembroke Fetridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001922465
Author : Josias Leslie Porter,John Murray
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783375012854
Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.