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Release : 2011-11-11
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Sacred Text -- Sacred Space by :
Download or read book Sacred Text -- Sacred Space written by . This book was released on 2011-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not designed to define the sacred. It is, rather, a bringing together of case histories (a rich, varied collection from medieval, early modern and nineteenth-century contexts in England and Wales) that goes beyond familiar paradigms to explore the dynamic, protean interaction, in different times and places, between sacred space and text. Essentially an interdisciplinary enterprise, it focuses a range of historical and critical methodologies on that complex process of transformation and transmission whereby spiritual intuitions, experiences and teachings are made palpable ‘in art and architecture, poetry and prayer, in histories, scriptures and liturgies, even landscapes. So the sacred, variously constructed and inscribed, makes itself felt ‘on the pulse’; is a presence, a voice even now not stilled.