Sacred Landscapes, Connecting Routes

2024-04-15 History

Author : Christina G. Williamson
Release : 2024-04-15
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 782/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Sacred Landscapes, Connecting Routes by : Christina G. Williamson

Download or read book Sacred Landscapes, Connecting Routes written by Christina G. Williamson. This book was released on 2024-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the crossroads of community, territory, and the divine is the landscape of religion. This landscape is shaped by those who occupy it, or desire to occupy it, and their ideologies as much as their cosmologies. But equally important are those who pass through it, and the flow of ideas that travel through its connections. Sacred landscapes are cultural artefacts, rooted in natural phenomena, legends and myths from the deep past, shaped by ritual performance and perception. They evoke by definition a sense of timelessness and yet are constantly evolving, subject to the shifts of formal and informal agencies across the scales. The religious environment is here addressed in terms of landscape, geography, traffic and paths of connection and communication and their material manifestations. How was sacred movement etched into the landscape? What sorts of media were involved in creating a âe~sacredâe(tm) landscape? Which material culture helped connect communities across time and space? The contributions in this volume explore these questions in relation to specific case studies in the ancient world, spanning the Mediterranean from Asia Minor through Greece to the Italian peninsula, in a time frame ranging from the Early Iron Age to the High Imperial period. They open up new areas to consider when looking at the phenomenon of sacred landscapes and connectivities. Such questions reach out beyond antiquity âe" they reflect on our own views of urban and rural space, and the importance of religion for collective identities and territorial claims today.

Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity

2020-07-31 Social Science

Author : Ralph Haussler
Release : 2020-07-31
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 284/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity by : Ralph Haussler

Download or read book Sacred Landscapes in Antiquity written by Ralph Haussler. This book was released on 2020-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From generation to generation, people experience their landscapes differently. Humans depend on their natural environment: it shapes their behavior while it is often felt that deities responsible for both natural benefits and natural calamities (such as droughts, famines, floods and landslides) need to be appeased. We presume that, in many societies, lakes, rivers, rocks, mountains, caves and groves were considered sacred. Individual sites and entire landscapes are often associated with divine actions, mythical heroes and etiological myths. Throughout human history, people have also felt the need to monumentalize their sacred landscape. But this is where the similarities end as different societies had very different understandings, believes and practices. The aim of this new thematic appraisal is to scrutinize carefully our evidence and rethink our methodologies in a multi-disciplinary approach. More than 30 papers investigate diverse sacred landscapes from the Iberian peninsula and Britain in the west to China in the east. They discuss how to interpret the intricate web of ciphers and symbols in the landscape and how people might have experienced it. We see the role of performance, ritual, orality, textuality and memory in people’s sacred landscapes. A diachronic view allows us to study how landscapes were ‘rewritten’, adapted and redefined in the course of time to suit new cultural, political and religious understandings, not to mention the impact of urbanism on people’s understandings. A key question is how was the landscape manipulated, transformed and monumentalized – especially the colossal investments in monumental architecture we see in certain socio-historic contexts or the creation of an alternative humanmade, seemingly ‘non-natural’ landscape, with perfectly astronomically aligned buildings that define a cosmological order? Sacred Landscapes therefore aims to analyze the complex links between landscape, ‘religiosity’ and society, developing a dialectic framework that explores sacred landscapes across the ancient world in a dynamic, holistic, contextual and historical perspective.

Sacred Sites of Minnesota

2004 History

Author : John-Brian Paprock
Release : 2004
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 269/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Sacred Sites of Minnesota by : John-Brian Paprock

Download or read book Sacred Sites of Minnesota written by John-Brian Paprock. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the traveler seeking to find the spirit--however he or she chooses to define that term--Minnesota is blessed with a large number of sacred sites, many of which are unique. This book profiles approximately 350 sites, including retreat centers, churches, temples, cemeteries, and effigy mounds. Learn about each site's history, uniqueness, aesthetic beauty, and awe. Specific location and contact information is also included.

Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece

2017-03-06 Social Science

Author : Lisa Nevett
Release : 2017-03-06
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 533/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece by : Lisa Nevett

Download or read book Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece written by Lisa Nevett. This book was released on 2017-03-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the modern world, objects and buildings speak eloquently about their creators. Status, gender identity, and cultural affiliations are just a few characteristics we can often infer about such material culture. But can we make similar deductions about the inhabitants of the first millennium BCE Greek world? Theoretical Approaches to the Archaeology of Ancient Greece offers a series of case studies exploring how a theoretical approach to the archaeology of this area provides insight into aspects of ancient society. An introductory section exploring the emergence and growth of theoretical approaches is followed by examinations of the potential insights these approaches provide. The authors probe some of the meanings attached to ancient objects, townscapes, and cemeteries, for those who created, and used, or inhabited them. The range of contexts stretches from the early Greek communities during the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, through Athens between the eighth and fifth centuries BCE, and on into present day Turkey and the Levant during the third and second centuries BCE. The authors examine a range of practices, from the creation of individual items such as ceramic vessels and figurines, through to the construction of civic buildings, monuments, and cemeteries. At the same time they interrogate a range of spheres, from craft production, through civic and religious practices, to funerary ritual.

Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor

2021-08-04 History

Author : Christina G. Williamson
Release : 2021-08-04
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 272/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor by : Christina G. Williamson

Download or read book Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor written by Christina G. Williamson. This book was released on 2021-08-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor, Christina G. Williamson examines the phenomenon of monumental sanctuaries in the countryside of Asia Minor that accompanied the second rise of the Greek city-state in the Hellenistic period. Moving beyond monolithic categories, Williamson provides a transdisciplinary frame of analysis that takes into account the complex local histories, landscapes, material culture, and social and political dynamics of such shrines in their transition towards becoming prestigious civic sanctuaries. This frame of analysis is applied to four case studies: the sanctuaries of Zeus Labraundos, Sinuri, Hekate at Lagina, and Zeus Panamaros. All in Karia, these well-documented shrines offer valuable insights for understanding religious strategies adopted by emerging cities as they sought to establish their position in the expanding world.

Popular eBooks

Sacred Landscapes, Connecting Routes

Sacred Sites of Minnesota

Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor

You may also like...