Landscapes of Christianity : destination, temporality, transformation / James S. Bielo; Amos S. Ron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bielo, James S., author.

Ron, Amos S., author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in religion, space and place

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and geography.

Place (Philosophy).

Sacred space.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Contents:

Foreword, Kim Knibbe (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)

1. Introduction, Amos S. Ron (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel) and James S. Bielo (Miami University, USA)

PART I: Destinations

2. Holy Quarter: Reshaping Urban Landscapes of Yekaterinburg in Post-Secular Russia, Jeanne Kormina (National Research University, Russia)

3. Galactic Shrines and the Catholic Cult of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, Michael Di Giovine (West Chester University, USA)

4. Domesticating the Landscape and Healing the Physical and Social Body at Lourdes, John Eade (Roehampton University, UK)

5. Crucifix and Dirt: Catholic and Indigenous Origins of the Holy Earth of the Santuario de Chimayo, Brett Hendrickson (Lafayette College, USA)

6. "A Lineal Temple": Pilgrimage and Sacred Space in Contemporary Mormonism, Sara M. Patterson (Hanover College, USA)

PART II: Temporalities

7. From the Gods' Mountains to the Messiah's Glade: Christian Landscapes of Africa and Asia, Jonathan Miles-Watson (Durham University, UK) and Sitna Quiroz (Durham University, UK)

8. Geography as Eschatology: Moral Freedom and Prophecy Fulfilment on Land and at Sea, Joseph Webster (Queen's University-Belfast, UK)

9. Imagining an Ethnic Ecumene: Evangelical Landscapes as Gentile, Jewish, and Native American, Rebekka King (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)

PART III: Transformations

10. Landscape as Expressive Resource in Biblical Themed Environments, James S. Bielo (Miami University, USA)

11. When Mountains Move: Sacred Performance and Overlapping Topographies in Athonite Processions, Veronica della Dora (Royal Holloway-University of London, UK)

12. The Landscape of Sacred Groves in the New Testament: The Mt. of Beatitudes, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden Tomb, Amos S. Ron (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel)

Afterword, Simon Coleman (University of Toronto, Canada)

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350062924

1350062928

9781350062900

1350062901

Publisher Number:

99992731508

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Restricted for use by site license.