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Archeology --- Antiquity --- Cyprus --- Greece --- Classical antiquities. --- Classical antiquities --- Antiquities, Classical --- Antiquities, Grecian --- Antiquities, Roman --- Archaeology, Classical --- Classical archaeology --- Roman antiquities --- Antiquities --- Archaeological museums and collections --- Art, Ancient --- Classical philology --- Coldstream, J.N. --- -Bibliography --- -Catalogs --- -Catalogs.

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The volume has a strong methodological focus on the spatial analysis of ritual and cult. It is organised around three major themes: the relationship between sacred landscapes, socio-political units and socio-economic networks; experiencing sacred landscapes; and the employment of artefacts and agency in the creation and perception of sacred space

Sacred space --- Rites and ceremonies --- Spatial analysis (Statistics) --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Mediterranean Region --- Antiquities --- Antiquities. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Sacred space. --- Antike. --- Heiligtum. --- Kult. --- Kultstätte. --- Ritual. --- Mediterranean Region. --- Mittelmeerraum. --- Burial --- Landscape archaeology --- Sacred space - Mediterranean Region --- Rites and ceremonies - Mediterranean Region --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Mediterranean Region --- Mediterranean Region - Antiquities

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This Special Issue is the third and final volume in a trilogy of collective peer-reviewed works of the Unlocking Sacred Landscapes research network. It encompasses various approaches both to ritual space and to artefacts relating to ritual practice and cults involving islandscapes (including landscapes and seascapes). The terms ritual and cult are used broadly to include sanctuaries, temples, and churches, as well as the domestic and funerary spheres of life. Although the main focus of the Special Issue is the Mediterranean region, studies related to other regions are included to stimulate wider methodological dialogues and comparative approaches. The time span ranges from prehistory to the recent past, and research includes ethnography and cultural heritage studies. The contributions of the issue deal with historical and culturally driven perspectives that recognise the complexities of island religious systems as well as the active role of the islanders in constructing their own religious identities, irrespective of emulation and acculturation. The authors consider inter-island and island/mainland relations, maritime connectivity of things and people, and ideological values in relation to religious change, as well as the relation between island space and environment in the performance and maintenance of spiritual lives.

Religion & beliefs --- multi-confessionalism --- popular religion --- sacred trees --- snakes --- insularity --- connectivity --- hierotopy --- Cyprus --- Late Bronze Age --- ritual --- commemoration --- burials --- mortuary practice --- sacred space --- Late Antiquity --- economy --- sacred topography --- churches --- landscape archaeology --- Early Byzantine --- historical archaeology --- memorialisation --- Island Archaeology --- GIS --- material culture --- Ikaros/Failaka --- Hellenistic East --- Seleucids --- late Middle Ages --- pilgrimage --- map of Cyprus --- medieval cartography --- history of navigation --- maritime shrine --- mixed shrines --- maritime routes --- midwives --- Eileithyia --- Minoan peak sanctuaries --- Bronze Age medicine --- gender studies --- Sardinia --- sacred landscapes --- maritime identities --- community identities --- rural churches --- historical contingency --- Ottoman era --- Cyclades islands --- Aegean Sea --- club house --- Malta --- Mediterranean --- island societies --- islandscapes --- ritual and cult --- visual and material culture

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Archaeology of Spiritualties provides a fresh exploration of the interface between archaeology and religion/spirituality. Archaeological approaches to the study of religion have typically and often unconsciously, drawn on western paradigms, especially Judaeo-Christian (mono)theistic frameworks and academic rationalisations. Archaeologists have rarely reflected on how these approaches have framed and constrained their choices of methodologies, research questions, hypotheses, definitions, interpretations and analyses and have neglected an important dimension of religion: the human experience of the numinous - the power, presence or experience of the supernatural. Within the religions of many of the world's peoples, sacred experiences - particularly in relation to sacred landscapes and beings connected with those landscapes - are often given greater emphasis, while doctrine and beliefs are relatively less important. Archaeology of Spiritualities asks how such experiences might be discerned in the archaeological record; how do we recognize and investigate ˜other' forms of religious or spiritual experience in the remains of the past? The volume opens up a space to explore critically and reflexively the encounter between archaeology and diverse cultural expressions of spirituality. It showcases experiential and experimental methodologies in this area of the discipline, an unconventional approach within the archaeology of religion. Thus Archaeology of Spiritualities offers a unique, timely and innovative contribution, one that is also challenging and stimulating. It is a great resource for archaeologists, historians, religious scholars and others interested in cultural and religious heritage.

Religious studies --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Archeology --- theologie --- archeologie