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This magisterial study takes as its subject the transformation, through Catholic devotions, of the landscape of the New World in the colonial period. Taylor’s principal concern is to demonstrate how different strains of early modern piety became rooted in specific places in Mexico, and why certain practices flourished over the first three hundred years of that nation’s history. In addition to considering shrines large and small, he explains the place of miracles, of pilgrimages, of the promotion of shrines in print, and of the role of devotional images in the elaboration of a new spiritual geography. Rooted in decades of archival research and in a deep knowledge of religion in colonial Mexico, Theater of a Thousand Wonders challenges facile interpretations of devotional behaviors and of the fluctuations in popularity of different shrines.Rather than seeing simply the substitution of one form of religious behavior for another in the wake of the Spanish conquest, and a mirror for metropolitan devotions, Taylor demonstrates how Mexican shrines and devotional practices diverged from their Spanish sources in ways that were unique to New Spain. These differences in behavior, amply adduced by records as diverse as hagiographic texts, Inquisition records, confraternity archives, as well as artistic and architectural evidence, reveal the tensions between popular spirituality and official desires, as well as the competition between religious orders to harness the wellsprings of devotions across the colony.

Christian shrines --- Mexico --- Mexique --- Church history. --- Histoire religieuse --- Sanctuaires chrétiens --- History --- Histoire --- Holy places, Christian --- Shrines, Christian --- Shrines --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Sanctuaires chrétiens --- Church history --- History. --- Christian holy places --- Christian shrines - New Spain --- Christian shrines - Mexico --- Amérique latine --- Sanctuaires --- Images miraculeuses --- Mexico - Church history

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Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are utterly and fascinatingly different from the modern. Drawing on Patristic writing and on Byzantine literature and art, the book develops a fresh conceptual framework for approaching Byzantine perceptions of space and the environment. It takes readers on an imaginary flight over the Earth and its varied topographies of gardens and wilderness, mountains and caves, rivers and seas, and invites them to shift from the linear time of history to the cyclical time and spaces of the sacred - the time and spaces of eternal returns and revelations.

Nature --- Religion and geography. --- Sacred space --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Geography and religion --- Geography --- Religious aspects --- Orthodox Eastern Church. --- Byzantine Empire --- Civilization

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Depuis une trentaine d'années, la croissance continue de la fréquentation des chemins de Compostelle (près de 238 000 pèlerins en 2014) a redonné une visibilité au phénomène pèlerin dont d'aucuns avaient peut-être annoncé trop vite la disparition. Ce livre s'attache à retracer éclipses et recharges d'une pratique religieuse extraordinaire que l'institution ecclésiastique s'est toujours efforcée de contrôler de bout en bout, sans y parvenir. Tout à la fois singulière et collective, la marche vers un lieu saint n'est pas vagabondage mais orientation vers un terme, lieu de rencontre avec l'archange, l'apôtre ou le saint intercesseur, où sont conservées les traces de sa présence, passage dans une sociabilité éphémère qui réunit des individus " sans aveu ", puisqu'ils ont quitté famille et patrie. Avec les souffrances encourues et les périls de la route, l'épreuve physique de l'espace, qu'elle soit voyage d'oraison, demande de guérison ou ascèse pénitentielle, a en effet connu bien des métamorphoses entre le XVe siècle et le balisage des chemins contemporains.

History of Europe --- Christian church history --- Christian special devotions --- Sacred space --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Lieux sacrés --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages chrétiens --- Sanctuaires chrétiens --- Pèlerinages chrétiens --- Récits de voyages français --- Histoire --- Europe --- Vie religieuse --- Histoire religieuse --- Christian shrines --- Holy places, Christian --- Shrines, Christian --- Shrines --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Christian --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- History. --- Religious life and customs. --- Church history. --- 248.153.8 --- 248.153.8 Bedevaarten. Pelgrimstochten--(algemeen) --- Bedevaarten. Pelgrimstochten--(algemeen) --- Lieux sacrés --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages chrétiens --- Histoire. --- Christian holy places --- History --- Pèlerinages

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Auf welche Weise markieren, übertragen oder konstituieren Medien die Sakralität erfahrbarer Orte? Für das Verständnis der christlichen Kultur des Mittelalters ist diese Frage zentral. Der Band erhellt aus interdisziplinären Perspektiven, wie Medium, Imagination und Affekt spatiale und sakrale Erfahrung verbinden. Bereits in der Spätantike werden die Orte von Christi Passion als heilige Stätten medialisiert. Im Mittelalter kommt ihnen eine Logik übertragbarer Heilswirkung zu, die den Umgang mit weiteren Orten prägt. Städte, Klöster und Kirchen organisieren sich baulich und rituell auf Basis vorgängiger sakraler Topographien; Liturgien, Prozessionen, geistliche Spiele bringen sie vor Ort zur Geltung. Wie sind Rolle und Verhältnis konkreter, imaginärer, virtueller und affektiver Räume in Praktiken der Sakralisierung dabei zu konzipieren? Der Blick auf historisch spezifische Konstellationen eröffnet Perspektiven, die zum kulturwissenschaftlichen Raumdiskurs beitragen.

Sacred space --- Christian art and symbolism --- Architecture, Medieval --- Lieux sacrés --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Architecture médiévale --- religion [discipline] --- Art --- Medieval [European] --- Sacred space. --- Architecture, Medieval. --- Middle Ages --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Christian art and symbolism - Medieval, 500-1500 --- Lieux saints --- Christelijke kunst --- religious experience

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An exploration of the production and reception of nature and spirituality in America’s national park system America’s national parks are some of the most powerful, beautiful, and inspiring spots on the earth. They are often considered “spiritual” places in which one can connect to oneself and to nature. But it takes a lot of work to make nature appear natural. To maintain the apparently pristine landscapes of our parks, the National Park Service must engage in traffic management, landscape design, crowd-diffusing techniques, viewpoint construction, behavioral management, and more—and to preserve the “spiritual” experience of the park, they have to keep this labor invisible. Spirituality and the State analyzes the way that the state manages spirituality in the parks through subtle, sophisticated, unspoken, and powerful techniques. Following the demands of a secular ethos, park officials have developed strategies that slide under the church/state barrier to facilitate deep connections between visitors and the space, connections that visitors often express as spiritual. Through indirect communication, the design of trails, roads, and vista points, and the management of land, bodies and sense perception, the state invests visitors in a certain way of experiencing reality that is perceived as natural, individual, and authentic. This construction of experience naturalizes the exercise of authority and the historical, social, and political interests that lie behind it. In this way a personal, individual, nature spirituality becomes a public religion of a particularly liberal stripe. Drawing on surveys and interviews with visitors and rangers as well as analyses of park spaces, Spirituality and the State investigates the production and reception of nature and spirituality in America’s national park system.

National parks and reserves --- Nature --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Religion and state --- Sacred space --- RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State. --- Holy places --- Places, Sacred --- Sacred places --- Sacred sites --- Sacred spaces --- Sites, Sacred --- Space, Sacred --- Holy, The --- Religion and geography --- Pilgrimages and pilgrims --- Processions, Religious --- Travelers --- Voyages and travels --- Shrines --- Philosophy of nature --- Religion and science --- Religious aspects. --- Religious interpretations --- Spiritual tourism