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La Cappella della Resurrezione, disegnata e costruita da Sigurd Lewerentz tra il 1921 e il 1925 nell’ambito del progetto per il Cimitero Sud di Stoccolma – divenuto noto come Woodland Cemetery, o Skogskyrkogården in lingua svedese –... more
Wendell Berry's decades of reflections on agriculture, sustainability, and poetry have been rooted in weekly sabbaths spent in the woods of his Kentucky farm. Graeme Sharrock's analysis shows how this practice of sacred time in rural... more
Temples were nearly ubiquitous across the ancient Near East. Rather than serving as a gathering place for a worshipping congregation, a temple served as a terrestrial divine abode. In it, the god(s) lived amid society, yet carefully... more
García García, E. M. (2017). “Roitman, Adolfo D., Del Tabernáculo al Templo. Sobre el espacio sagrado en el judaísmo antiguo. Estella, Editorial Verbo Divino, 2016, 326 pp. ISBN: 978-84-9073-243-4.” ’Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las... more
The role of sacred springs and spring deities in Hittite religion is especially relevant to the consideration of the relationship between nature and cult in ancient Anatolia. This paper addresses the subject by first presenting an... more
How does theological Metaphysics view small space ? And what link could be found between theology, Christology and Small spaces ? The aim will be to start our investigation at the figure of the "little ones"(mikroi),central to the... more
In this lecture, I expand our definition of sacred space beyond mosques, cathedrals, and other religious sanctuaries. I argue that cities can be designed to elicit contemplation and empathy, concern for the environment, or even a... more
When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth? The difference between a secular mindset and a sacred mindset is that in the secular life, one engages in daily life disconnected and without awareness of God. In the sacred... more
Der folgende Text ist Ergebnis des Nachdenkens über Schwellen als Grenzphäno-mene, die oft entscheidend sind-und über ihren Sinn für das Menschenleben. Bezüglich meiner mehr als zwanzig Jahren langer Tätigkeit als Mutter, Lehrerin,... more
In the late 60s, the German architect Hans Walter Müller made a project for an extraordinary church in France, both due to the material used and due to its short life-span: the inflatable church at Montigny-lès-Cormeilles. That project... more
Para un estudio adecuado de cualquier situación histórica hay que tener en cuenta la concepción de espacio y de tiempo que pudieron tener las personas que produjeron los hechos que se pretenden analizar. El comportamiento del ser humano... more
Das Thema Sakralbauten und ihre Zukunft ist seit geraumer Zeit in den Schlagzeilen der Medien ständig präsent. Mit Stichworten wie Kirchenschließung und Kirchenabriss wird die heutige Situation der christlichen Sakraltopographie... more
Poziv za sudjelovanje na 3. međunarodnom znanstvenom skupu srednjovjekovne arheologije Instituta za arheologiju "Sakralizacija prostora i sveta mjesta"
The study is a breakthrough operated with the means of ethnographic, plastic and intercultural analysis in the works of the Armenian filmmaker Serghei Paradjanov, made from the perspective of his nucleus film ”Sayat- Nova”. The atypical... more
Jerusalem is the frontline and a microcosm of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In recent years, comic artists have turned their attention to the Middle East, including the ‘Holy City’. Scholars, however, have yet to study how comics... more
The author describes the situation in the Canary Islands, referring first to the deities of the communities here. The aborigines of the Canary Islands utilized sacrificial altars, locally known as pireos, to perform rituals on prominent... more
Il contributo propone una rilettura della scultura lignea d'età medievale in costiera amalfitana, esaminata sulla base di dati statistci e analizzata a seconda delle diverse tipologie funzionali: crocifissi, statue mariane, gruppi. Ci si... more
The paper explores the interaction with sacred places in New Age pilgrimage. There is a tendency in social theory of religion to define New Age spirituality as individualized form of religiosity in accordance with the notion of "private... more
Invited presentation, “Templum Dei: Exploring the Language of Sacred Architecture,” Evening Salon discussion hosted by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art – Utah Chapter, given at VCBO Architecture, Salt Lake City, UT (September... more
This paper aims to interpret the role of indigenous sanctuaries in the Hellenization of inland Karia. Although coastal regions of Karia had been subject to Greek colonization from the Bronze Age on, mountainous inland Karia, with its own... more
Addressing the voluminous and multifarious expressions of architecture and spirituality is a daunting task. Consequently, three focused perspectives inform our discussion. The first con siders the "objecthood" of... more
The city of Tehran contains countless murals of imposing dimensions, in various colors and styles, predominantly featuring portraits of the martyrs of the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988). These paintings, which refer to various sociopolitical... more
This chapter examines the local traditions (through Pausanias and Theognis), discourse environment, and positionality of Megara to establish abstract principles of the Megarian worldview, and then applies those principles to the local... more
Study focusing on the notion of space sacralisation, its contemporary definitions, the role of mapping sacralised spaces in contemporary studies of antiquity and some case studies from Roman Dacia
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The structure of the tabernacle and the order of the divine service (תמיד) reflect the cosmology and ritual of creation. Through the divine service Israel actualizes the divinely created order, becoming partakers of God's "very good"... more
Although Fourth Ezra and Second Baruch roughly date to the same era (late 1st to mid-2nd century) and respond to the same catastrophe (destruction of the Second Temple), use the same narrative device of pseudepigraphy and narrative foil... more
This papers examines three early Christian memorial sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem (church of the Nativity, Eleona church on the Mount of Olives, and Church of the Resurrection) erected in the 330s in the time of Constantine the Great... more
Protecting our Cultural and Landscape heritage is an indispensable act: Cultural landscape is the result of anthropic actions and reflects our history, but also it is still alive and active. To live fully the landscape means first of all... more
Heilige Gräber sind Nachbauten des Grabes Christi in Jerusalem – kapellenartige Anlagen mit dem leeren Sarkophag des Auferstandenen. Seit der Wiederentdeckung durch Kaiser Konstantin 325/326 ist das Christusgrab in Jerusalem ein Ort... more
Автореферат диссертации на соискание ученой степени кандидата искусствоведения: "Архитектура современных православных храмов Беларуси: традиции и мировой контекст" / Abstract of PhD thesis "Contemporary Belarusian Orthodox Christian... more
Udgravning ved en helligkilde, der har været i anvendelse fra middelalderen og op til nyere tid. Herved fundet mønter, lerkarskår, glasskår, knapper m.v., der vidner om aktiviteter i tilknytning til kilden. Fundene er først og fremmest... more
Recent national press coverage has generated considerable attention to the solar geometry of the Spanish colonial missions of California. Speculations as to the purpose of the attendant illuminations have ranged widely from outright... more
This is my five minute speech as part of the Book Launch of "Whispers and Vanities: Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion" held on Friday 21 November, 2014, at the Fale Pasifika of The University of Auckland. I am grateful to Dr.... more