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Experiences of place / edited by Mary N. MacDonald.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Religions of the world (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Religions of the world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and geography--Congresses.
- Religion and geography.
- Sacred space--Congresses.
- Sacred space.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 189 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, [2003]
- Summary:
- Place and orientation are important aspects of human experience. Place evokes geography and culture and conjures up history and myth. Place is not only a particular physical location but an idea, a mental construction that captures and directs the human relationship to the world.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Place and the Study of Religions / Mary N. MacDonald 1
- Owl Dune Tales: Divine Politics and Deserted Places in Rajasthan / Ann Grodzins Gold 21
- From Dan to Beer-sheba and from the Wilderness to the Sea: Literal and Literary Images of the Promised Land in the Bible / Nili Wazana 45
- A Sense of Place: The Meaning of Homeland in Sacred Yoruba Cosmology / Jacob K. Olupona 87
- Who Is Hildegard? Where Is She
- On Heaven? / Mary Gerhart 115
- Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary American Millennialism / Michael Barkun 147
- Dance of the Ephemeral: Australian Aboriginal Religion of Place / Deborah Bird Rose 163.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0945454384
- OCLC:
- 51482420
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