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Tourism --- Sacred space --- Religious aspects --- Management

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"While mosques are the central house of worship for a majority of Muslims around the world, many of Islam's communities have developed their own distinctive religious spaces. These complementary spaces serve the different cultures, geographies and interpretations of Islam that continue to enrich the Muslim tradition. In this book, Rizwan Mawani encounters diverse communities and their sites of worship, from the mosque and husayniya to the khanaqah and jamatkhana. Readers are introduced to a variety of Muslim spaces, modest and elaborate - their distinct structures and the rituals practised within them, as well as the purposes they serve as community centres and markers of identity. Beyond the Mosque reveals architectural responses to evolving community needs and local environments, from Senegal and China to Iran and India. This illuminating survey celebrates the significant pluralism that characterises the living Muslim tradition today."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Islam --- Islamic architecture. --- Sacred space. --- Worship (Islam) --- Rituals.

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This volume explores the Pre-Columbian Andean concepts of time, space, and the human body through objects, skeletal remains, and language. This interdisciplinary approach to conceptualizing what the Andean concepts of being may have been brings contemporary approaches to past notions of the sacred, with each discipline adding its own unique perspective to the Andean ontology. A particular strength of this volume is that most of the contributors are South American researchers, offering North American scholars entry into scholarship that has been confined to Spanish language publications.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Sacred space --- Indians of South America --- Ontology --- Rites and ceremonies. --- History

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"For the ancient and modern Maya, geographic features like caves, mountains, springs, and abandoned cities are viewed as powerful entities who need to be given regular offerings. As a result, Guatemala's Northern Transversal Strip has been a battle ground between foreign powers and local independence movements over several thousand years"--

Kekchi Indians --- Sacred space --- Caves --- Cultural property --- Religion. --- Religious aspects. --- Antiquities. --- Protection

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Ethnology --- Sacred space --- Mana --- Land use --- Social aspects --- Marquesas Islands --- Social life and customs.