عنوان

Sacred space :

(Number (ISBN

1349140848

(Number (ISBN

9781349140848

Number

b384481

Title Proper

Sacred space :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

shrine, city, land : proceedings of the international conference in memory of Joshua Prawer

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Benjamin Z. Kedar and R.J. Zwi Werblowsky.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Macmillan ; Jerusalem : Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1998.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

(348 pages) : illustrations, maps ;

Text of Note

Proceedings from the conference held in Jerusalem, June 8-13, 1992.

Text of Note

Introduction : mindscape and landscape / R.J. Zwi Werblowsky -- Constructing a small place / Jonathan Z. Smith -- A city of many temples: Ḫattuša, capital of the Hittites / Itamar Singer -- The sacred sea / Abraham Malamat -- Some Biblical concepts of sacred place / Sara Japhet -- The temple in the Hellenistic period and in Judaism / Doron Mendels -- The Divinity as place and time and the holy place in Jewish mysticism / Haviva Pedaya -- Byzantium's dual Holy Land / Evelyne Patlagean -- Intellectual activities in a holy city : Jerusalem in the twelfth century / Benjamin Z. Kedar -- The harem : a major source of Islam's military might / David Ayalon -- Holy body, holy society : conflicting medieval structural conceptions / Kenneth R. Stow -- Cities as cultic centres in Germany and Italy during the Early and High Middle Ages / Alfred Haverkamp -- Ambivalence and longing : Vyāsa's curse on Kāśī / David Shulman -- Geotyping sacred space : the case of Mount Hiko in Japan / Allan G. Grapard -- The cult of Santa María Tonantzin, Virgin of Guadelupe in Mexico / Richard Nebel -- The Muslim holy cities as foci of Islamic revivalism in the eighteenth century / Nehemia Levtzion and Gideon Weigert -- Hallowed land in the theory and practice of modern nationalism / Hedva Ben-Israel -- The role of charismatic dreams in the creation of sacred sites in present-day Israel / Yoram Bilu -- Facing a holy space : psychiatric hospitalization of tourists in Jerusalem / Moshe Kalian and Eliezer Wiztu.

Conference papers and proceedings; Congresses

Joshua Prawer

Aḳademyah ha-leʼumit ha-Yiśreʼelit le-madaʻim.

B Z Ḳedar

R J Zwi Werblowsky

Electronic name

[Book]

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