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Author : Ranjani Atur
Release : 2016
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Book Synopsis A Theory of Sacred Space in Ancient Greek Temples by : Ranjani Atur
Download or read book A Theory of Sacred Space in Ancient Greek Temples written by Ranjani Atur. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bonna D. Wescoat
Release : 2014-10-13
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Architecture of the Sacred by : Bonna D. Wescoat
Download or read book Architecture of the Sacred written by Bonna D. Wescoat. This book was released on 2014-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative spaces in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine civilizations. Collectively they demonstrate the multiple ways in which works of architecture and their settings were active agents in the ritual process. Architecture did not merely host events; rather, it magnified and elevated them, interacting with rituals facilitating the construction of ceremony. This book examines comparatively the ways in which ideas and situations generated by the interaction of place, built environment, ritual action, and memory contributed to the cultural formulation of the sacred experience in different religious faiths.
Author : Susan E. Alcock
Release : 1994
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Placing the Gods by : Susan E. Alcock
Download or read book Placing the Gods written by Susan E. Alcock. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cult activity played an extremely important role in ancient Greece--to the point, historians believe, that the placing of cult centers played a major part in establishing the whole concept of the city-state in archaic Greece. The essays in this collection critically examine the social and political importance of sanctuary placement, extending the analysis back to Mycenean Greece and on to Greece under Roman occupation. Revealing the complexity of relations between religion and politics in ancient Greece, these essays show how important tradition, gender relations, and cult identity were in creating and maintaining the religious mapping of the ancient Greek countryside.
Author : Bonna D. Wescoat
Release : 2012
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Architecture of the Sacred by : Bonna D. Wescoat
Download or read book Architecture of the Sacred written by Bonna D. Wescoat. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the role of architecture in the construction of sacred experience in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian and Byzantine cultures.
Author : Efrosyni Boutsikas
Release : 2020-10-29
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Cosmos in Ancient Greek Religious Experience by : Efrosyni Boutsikas
Download or read book The Cosmos in Ancient Greek Religious Experience written by Efrosyni Boutsikas. This book was released on 2020-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Efrosyni Boutsikas examines ancient Greek religious performances, intricately orchestrated displays comprising topography, architecture, space, cult, and myth. These various elements were unified in a way that integrated the body within cosmic space and made the sacred extraordinary. Boutsikas also explores how natural light or the night-sky may have assisted in intensifying the experience of these rituals, and how they may have determined ancient perceptions of the cosmos. The author's digital and virtual reconstructions of ancient skyscapes and religious structures during such occurrences unveil a deeper understanding of the importance of time and place in religious experience. Boutsikas shows how they shaped emotions, cosmological beliefs, and ritual memory of the participants. Her study revolutionises our understanding on ancient emotionality and cognitive experience, demonstrating how Greek religious spaces were vibrant arenas of a shared experience of the cosmos.
