عنوان

Architecture of the sacred :

(Number (ISBN

1107008239

(Number (ISBN

9781107008236

Number

b418150

Title Proper

Architecture of the sacred :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

space, ritual, and experience from classical Greece to Byzantium /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Bonna D. Wescoat and Robert G. Ousterhout

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxiv, 385 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, maps, plans ;

Dimensions

27 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Material culture and ritual : state of the question / Jaś Elsner -- Monumental steps and the shaping of ceremony / Mary B. Hollinshead -- Coming and going in the sanctuary of the great gods, Samothrace / Bonna D. Wescoat -- Entering Demeter's gateway : the Roman propylon and in the city Eleusinion / Margaret M. Miles -- Architecture and ritual in Ilion, Athens, and Rome / C. Brian Rose -- The same, but different: the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus through time / Ellen Perry -- Mapping sacrifice on bodies and spaces in ancient Judaism and early Christianity / Joan Branham -- The 'foundation deposit' from the Dura Europos Synagogue reconsidered / Jodi Magness -- Sight lines of sanctity at Late Antique Martyria / Ann Marie Yasin -- The sanctity of place and the sanctity of buildings : Jerusalem vs. Constantinople / Robert G. Ousterhout -- Divine light : constructing the immaterial in Byzantine art and architecture / Slobodan Ćurčić -- Structure, agency, ritual, and the Byzantine church / Vasileios Marinis -- Afterword / Bonna D. Wescoat and Robert G. Ousterhout

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Text of Note

"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"--Provided by publisher

Text of Note

"In this book, a distinguished team of authors investigates the role of architecture in the construction of sacred experience in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine cultures"--Provided by publisher

Architecture and religion

Architecture-- Mediterranean Region-- Psychological aspects

Sacred space-- Mediterranean Region

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Ousterhout, Robert G

Wescoat, Bonna D

Ćurčić, Slobodan.

Magness, Jodi.

Marinis, Vasileios,1975-

Ousterhout, Robert G.

Yasin, Ann Marie.

Date of Transaction

20120307162548.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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