The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space Jeanne Halgren Kilde

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0190874988
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0190874988
• Author: Jeanne Halgren Kilde

How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience? This handbook brings together thirty-three essays addressing these questions using a range of methods and approaches to examine specific spaces or types of spaces around the world and across time. The authors here represent and draw upon many disciplines: religious studies and religion, anthropology, archaeology, architectural history and architecture, cultural and religious history, sociology, geography, gender and women’s studies and others. Their essays are snapshots, each offering a specific way to think about the religious space(s) under consideration: Roman shrines, Jewish synagogues, Christian churches, Muslim and Catholic shrines, indigenous spaces in Central America and East Africa, cemeteries, memorials, and more.

Some overarching principles emerge from these snapshots. The authors demonstrate that religious spaces are simultaneously individual and collective, personal and social; that they are influenced by culture, tradition, and immediate circumstances; and that they participate in various relationships of power. These essays demonstrate that religious spaces do not simply provide a convenient background for religious action but are also constituent of religious meaning and religious experience; they play an active role in creating, expressing, broadcasting, maintaining, and transforming religious meanings and religious experiences. By learning how religious spaces function, readers of this collection will gain a deeper understanding of religious life and religions themselves.

Table of contents:

Part I. Theory and Method for Approaching Religious Spaces and Locations

1. Conceptualizing Space and Place: Genealogies of Change in the Study of Religion
Juan E. Campo

2. Hermeneutics of Space: Sacred Space
Michael J. Crosbie

3. Urbanism and Religious Space
Paul-François Tremlett

4. Shared Space, Or Mixed?
Robert M. Hayden

5. Decommissioning and Reuse of Liturgical Architectures: Historical Processes and Temporal Dimensions
Andrea Longhi

6. The Impermanence of Religious Space: Three Approaches to Change in the American Religioscape
Jeanne Halgren Kilde

7. Planetary Identities: Globalization, Climate Change and Meaning-Making Practices
Whitney A. Bauman

Part II. Religious Spaces and Buildings across the Globe
A. Asia
8. Whose Place Is it? Layers of Community and Meaning in the Land of Shinto and Power Spots
Caleb Carter

9. Religious Place/Space in Premodern China
Wei-Cheng Lin

10. National Treasures vs. Alien Species: Religious Spaces, Raccoons, and National Identity in Contemporary Japan
Barbara R. Ambros

11. Visualizing Himalayan Buddhist Sacred Sites in 3D/VR: Pedagogy and Partnership
Lauren Leve and Bradley Erickson

B. Middle East
12. Form and Function in the Ancient Synagogue: Evidence from Roman and Byzantine Palestine and the Diaspora
Marilyn J. Chiat

13. A Little Bit of Evil: Masjid Kufa in Early Twelver Shi’ism
Najam Haider

14. Mediated Spaces of Collective Ritual: Sacred Selfies at the Hajj
Nadia Caidi and Mariam Karim

15. (In)visible Priorities: Epigraphic Power and Identity at a Jordanian State Mosque
David Simonowitz

C. Africa and the African Diaspora
16. Exploration of Religious Spaces in Western Africa: Combining Approaches to Understand Spaces
Daniel Dei

17. Religious Spaces as Tourist Sites in Ghana
Alice Matilda Nsiah

18. Sacred Space in 19th Century Cape Town: Mosque, City, Landscape and a Radical Empiricism of the Spatial
Ozayr Saloojee

19. Mapping the Spiritual Baptist Universe: Black Atlantic Cosmography and the Spatiality of Spirit in Trinidad and Tobago
Brendan Jamal Thornton

D. Europe and the Mediterranean
20. The Spaces of Roman Religion and Christianity in Late Antiquity
Béatrice Caseau Chevallier

21. Presence and Performance: Orthodox Spaces of the Eastern Roman Empire
Amy Papalexandrou

22. Remnants of Israel: Jewish Spaces and Landscapes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Jessica Renee Streit and Barry L. Stiefel

23. The Religious Landscape and its Architecture in Contemporary Europe
Esteban Fernández-Cobián

E. The Americas
24. Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Religious Spaces in Mesoamerica
Brent K.S. Woodfill

25. Protestant Architecture in Latin America
Rodrigo Vidal Rojas

26. Roman Catholic Sacred Space
Leonard Norman Primiano

27. Protestant Spaces in North America.
David R. Bains

28. Eastern Orthodox Spaces in America
Nicholas Denysenko

29. Diasporic Sacred Spaces: The Case of Boundary Making at an American Sufi Shrine
Merin Shobhana Xavier

30. Women’s Mosques: Spaces to Rethink Gender and Religious Authority
Irum Shiekh

Part III. Memorials, Shrines, and Cemeteries
31. Sites of Miracles and other Holy Places: The Santuario de Chimayó as Case Study
Brett Hendrickson

32. Situating the Dead: Cemeteries as Material, Symbolic, and Relational Space
Avril Madrell and Brenda Mathijssen

33. Fundament and Abyss: Public Religion at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial
David Lê

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