Author: David W. Kim
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783030565244
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian, Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related stories in regional history. Contemporary society witnesses many travelers visiting sacred sites (temples, mountains, castles, churches, houses) throughout the world. These visits often involve discovery of new historical facts through the origin stories of the associated tribe, region, or nation. The transmission of oral tradition and myth carries on the significant meaning of those religious sites. This volume unveils multi-angle perspectives of symbolic and mystical places. The contributors describe the religio-political experiences of each regional case, and analyze the religiosity of local people as a lens through which readers can re-examine the concept of iconography, syncretism, and materialism. In addition, contributors interpret the growth of new religions as the alternative perspectives of anti-traditional religions. This new approach offers significant insight into comprehending the practical agony and sorrow of regional people in the context of contemporary history.
Author: Susan Suntree
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803231989
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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"Sacred Sites honors the power and beauty of our indigenous heritage and homeland. By knowing our history we better understand the present and our journey into the future."---Anthony Morales, tribal chair, Gabrielino Tongva Council of San Gabriel --
Author: David L. Carmichael
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415096034
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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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 special and why this ascription remains constant in some cultures and changes in others.
Author: David W. Kim
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303056522X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Book Description
This book offers global perspectives from Mediterranean, Asian, Australian, and American cultures on sacred sites and their related stories in regional history. Contemporary society witnesses many travelers visiting sacred sites (temples, mountains, castles, churches, houses) throughout the world. These visits often involve discovery of new historical facts through the origin stories of the associated tribe, region, or nation. The transmission of oral tradition and myth carries on the significant meaning of those religious sites. This volume unveils multi-angle perspectives of symbolic and mystical places. The contributors describe the religio-political experiences of each regional case, and analyze the religiosity of local people as a lens through which readers can re-examine the concept of iconography, syncretism, and materialism. In addition, contributors interpret the growth of new religions as the alternative perspectives of anti-traditional religions. This new approach offers significant insight into comprehending the practical agony and sorrow of regional people in the context of contemporary history.
Author: Bernyce Barlow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781567180565
Category : Sacred space
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Described in the book are seventy-three "sacred centers," in the Western United States recognized for their abilities to heal, purify, and rejuvenate--along with the holy history, earth physics, and legends of each."--Publisher Marketing.
Author: Mark D. Steinberg
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253218500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 867
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Sacred Stories brings together the work of leading scholars writing on the history of religion and religiosity in late imperial Russia during the critical decades preceding the 1917 revolutions. Embodying new research and new methodologies, this book reshapes our understanding of the place of religion in modern Russian history. Topics examined include miraculous icons and healing, pilgrim narratives, confessions, women and Orthodox domesticity, marriage and divorce, conversion and tolerance, Jewish folk beliefs, mysticism in Russian art, and philosophical aspects of Orthodox religious thought. Sacred Stories demonstrates that belief, spirituality, and the sacred were powerful and complex cultural expressions central to Russian political, social, economic, and cultural life. Contributors are Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Heather J. Coleman, Gregory L. Freeze, Nadieszda Kizenko, Alexei A. Kurbanovsky, Roy R. Robson, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Gabriella Safran, Vera Shevzov, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Mark Steinberg, Paul Valliere, William G. Wagner, Paul W. Werth, and Christine D. Worobec.
Author: Andrew Gulliford
Publisher: Niwot, Colo. : University Press of Colorado
ISBN:
Category : Ceremonial objects
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Book Description
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: Dolors Vidal-Casellas
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 178924112X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Religious heritage and sacred sites offer an opportunity for visitors to explore a community's cultural knowledge. However, it is important to consider the role of interpretation, meaning, experience and narrative. This book is a timely re-assessment of the increasing interconnections between the management of diversity and religious tourism, and secular spaces on a global stage. It explores key learning points from a range of contemporary case studies on religious and pilgrimage activity; these relate to ancient, sacred and emerging tourist destinations, and new forms of pilgrimage, faith systems and quasi-religious activities. By providing a conceptual framework, the book demonstrates the symbolism of sacred spaces within religious traditions and the relationships developed between them. It offers explanations on how to manage and communicate religious diversity and provides a solid overview of: Religious tourism as a tool for intercultural dialogue; Interpretation of religious heritage for tourism; Cross-cultural contacts. This book will provide a valuable resource for those researching and practising tourism management, pilgrimage and religious tourism.
Author: Philip Carr-Gomm
Publisher: Quercus Books
ISBN: 9781847242402
Category : Pilgrims and pilgrimages
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Includes sites from Africa, Middle East, Europe, The Americas, Oceania, and Asia.
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426203367
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Book Description
A listing of five hundred sites new and old, famous and unknown, that have been used to connect humanity with its gods.
