Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures: Transmission of Oral Tradition, Myth, and Religiosity 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 303056522X
• ISBN-13: 9783030565220
• Author: David W. Kim

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. Visual Arts and Architecture
2. Traces of Places: Sacred Sites in Miniature on Minoan Gold Rings
3. Reimagining Sacrosanct Sites in the Graphic Arts of Kōno Fumiyo
4. Consecrated Journeys: A Torres Strait Islander Space, Time Odyssey
5. Art and Cultural Heritage of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata: A View through the Terracotta Temples of Bishnupur, West Bengal
Part II. Pilgrimage and Tourism (Asia and New Age)
6. Jiba: Returning Home for Tenrikyo Followers
7. Blurred Boundaries between Secular Memory and Sacred Space in Religious Tourism: Cases of Mormon and Unification Faiths
8. The Spiritual in the Mundane: The Poetry of the Shikoku O-Henro Pilgrimage
Part III. Competition and Contestation
9. Competition and Contestation at a Hindu-Muslim Shrine: The Case of the Sant Laldas in Mewat, North India
10. Maitreya’s Boundless Gaze: The Religious Implications of Maitreya Mega-Statues
Part IV. Theory and Method
11. Contemporary Creations and Re-cognitions of Sacred Sites
12. Is Sacred Site Discovered? Or Created?: A Case Study of Daesoon Jinrihoe
13. Transformation of Admiral to the Sainthood and Sacred Stories of Chinese Sanctum Sanctorum from Malabar Coast

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