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Religions --- Sacred space --- Relations

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Sacred space --- Shrines

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"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-seven authors addressing these questions, using a range of methods to analyze specific spaces or types of spaces around the world and across time. Their methods are grounded in many disciplines: religious studies and religion, anthropology, archaeology, architectural history and architecture, cultural and religious history, sociology, gender and women's studies, geography, and political science, resulting in a distinctly interdisciplinary collection. These 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 others. They are organized here by geographical region rather than tradition, to emphasized the cultural roots of religion and religious spaces. Several 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. Most importantly, 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, that is, they play an active role in creating, expressing, broadcasting, maintaining, and transforming religious meaning, experience"--

Sacred space --- Religious facilities

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The archaeological excavations conducted from one end of the Mediterranean zone to the other have illuminated the place of gods in the ritual practices in the dwellings of the Graeco-Roman era. The discovery of multiple artefacts, dedicated spaces, and figurative paintings support new avenues of historical, anthropological, and social reflection with the aim of better understanding domestic religious practices in the polytheistic contexts of antiquity. This collective volume organizes those reflections around three axes. The first axis centres on identifying the deities that were favoured in domestic sanctuaries. Which gods are represented and which are not? The second axis concerns the interrelationships evident within domestic ritual spaces and sanctuaries. The third axis is dedicated to the anthropology of rituals. Lines of inquiry informed by anthropological, social, and phenomenological approaches are assuming ever-greater importance in scholarship on Antiquity. It is from this perspective that the authors explore the role that domestic ritual spaces play in shaping the lived environment.

Dwellings --- Sacred space --- Religious aspects.

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Begrepene rom og sted har fått fornyet interesse som teoretiske ressurser for humanistiske fag de siste årene, inspirert av nyere utvikling innen samfunnsvitenskapene, og spesielt i samfunnsgeografi. I denne boken utforsker en tverrfaglig sammensatt gruppe norske forskere hva denne «romlige vendingen» kan bety for fag som religionsvitenskap, teologi, filosofi og utdanningsvitenskap. "Within the humanities, the concepts space and place have been the subject of renewed interest as theoretical resources over the last years, inspired by recent developments within the social sciences, and in particular human geography. In this volume, an interdisciplinary team of Norwegian scholars explore the potential of this «spatial turn» for disciplines like religious studies, theology, philosophy and educational studies. The book is edited by Knut-Willy Sæther, professor, Volda University College and Anders Aschim, professor, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences."

Sacred space. --- Space --- Religious aspects.