Locating the Sacred.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (197 pages)
- Oxbow/Joukowsky Institute Publication ; v.3 .
- Oxbow/Joukowsky Institute Publication .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Contributor Addresses -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Linear Reflections: Ritual Memory and Material Repetition at the Thirteen Altars at Lavinium -- Chapter 3: Re-Placing the Nile: Water and Mimesis in the Roman Practice of Egyptian Religion at Pergamon -- Chapter 4: Itinerant Creeds: The Chinese Northern Frontier -- Chapter 5: The Dig at the End of the World: Archaeology and Apocalypse. Tourism in the Valley of Armageddon -- Chapter 6: Power of Place: Ruler, Landscape and Ritual Space at The Sanctuaries of Labraunda and Mamurt Kale in Asia Minor -- Chapter 7: Transforming the Surroundings and its Impact on Cult Rituals: The Case Study of Artemis Mounichia in the Fifth Century -- Chapter 8: The Sacred Houses in Neolithic Wansan Society -- Chapter 9: Putting Religious Ritual in its Place: On Some Ways Humans' Cognitive Predilections Influence the Locations and Shapes of Religious Rituals -- Chapter 10: The Aptitude for Sacred Space -- Index.