Loci Sacri : Understanding Sacred Places.

Intro -- Loci Sacri - Understanding Sacred Places -- Editorial Board -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Spirituality and Scholarship - Sacred Acts and Sacred Spaces -- What Makes a Monastery a Sacred Place? -- An Analogical Concept -- Monastic Sacred Places -- Monastic Sacred Places Today -- Types -- Introduction -- The Scandal of Particularity - Meaning, Incarnation, and Sacred Places -- Strongly and Weakly Incarnated Meanings -- Religious Meaning and Symbols: Sacred Places -- Modern and Postmodern Attitudes -- (Sacred) Places are Made of Time - Observations on the Persistence of the Sacred in Categorizing Space in Modernity -- The House of God? - The Conceptualization of Sacred Places in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond -- Conceptualizing Sacred Places -- 'House of God' in the Hebrew Bible: Affirmation and Questioning -- 'House of God' in the Hebrew Bible: Historical Development -- Conceptualizations of the Temple after the Hebrew Bible -- Sites -- Introduction -- Devotion and Devotions -- Experience Versus Doctrine -- Coda -- The Need and the Search for Sacred Places - A Sociological Perspective -- Religious Buildings and their Induced Representations -- An Aesthetic Resource -- A Medium for History -- Supports for Memory -- Identity Markers -- Landmarks, Milestones and Indicators of Centrality -- An Economic Resource as Tourist Product -- Religious Buildings and their Current Uses -- Secular Uses -- Places for Spirituality -- Reflexivity -- Secondarity -- Spirituality -- Conclusion -- Capturing Nameless Energies, Experiencing Matrixial Paradoxes - Syncretist Sacred Sites on the Canary Islands -- 'Spiky' Tree (+ Parasite Tree) + Source, Natural Stone + Supernatural Imprint: The Virgen Del Pino (Our Lady of the Pine) -- Rock + Water, Dark Natural Matter + Shining Supernatural Image: The Virgen De La Peña (Our Lady of the Cliff).

Fire + Snow, Peak + Abyss: The Virgen De Los Volcanes (Our Lady of the Volcanos) / Virgen De Las Nieves (Our Lady of the Snow) -- Blackness + Light, Rising from Beneath: The Virgen De Candelaria (Our Lady of Candelmas) -- Syncretism and the Expression of Matrixial Experiences -- Conclusions -- No Places of Pilgrimage without Devotion(s) -- John of the Cross Discussing places for Devotion -- Devotion according to Catholic Tradition -- John of the cross on Statues of Saints -- 1000 Years of places of Pilgrimage in the Netherlands, 1000 Years of Devotion and Devotions -- Contemporary Pilgrims -- The Contemporary place of Pilgrimage as a place for Devotion -- Representing Sacred Space - Pilgrimage and Literature -- Literature of Pilgrimage -- Pilgrimage in Literature -- Literary Pilgrimage -- Afterword -- Purported Sacrality - The Ambiguous past and Ironic Present of a Sometimes Sacred Mesoamerican Archaeological-Tourist Site -- Monte Albán, Oaxaca: Pre-Columbian Zapotec Capital and Purportedly Sacred Site -- Monte Albán's Pre-Columbian History: A Not-Particularly Sacred Site -- Monte Albán's Post-Contact and Colonial-Era History: An Obscure Sacred Site -- Monte Albán's More Recent History: An Eventually Sacred Site -- Contemporary Monte Albán: An Increasingly Contested Sacred Site -- What Makes a Site Sacred? - Transforming 'Place' To 'Sacred Space' -- Birth and Death -- Monasteries -- Alternative Burial Sites -- Cemeteries, Cenotaphs and Memorials -- Reusing -- Introduction -- Dedication Rituals and Two Models for the Sacralization of Space -- Reuse of Sacred Places - Perspectives for a Long Tradition -- Religious and Ideological Reuse of Sacred Places -- Desertion, Destruction and Ruin of Sacred Places -- Pragmatic and Profane Reuse of Sacred Places Before the Nascence of Conservation of Historic Buildings -- The New Sanctity of Cultural Reuse.

Conclusion -- 'Heritagization' of Church Buildings - Quebec and North American Perspectives -- Churches are Closing -- The Heritagization Movement -- The Quebec Situation -- Sacred and Symbolic Values of Churches -- Bibliography -- Authors -- Colophon.

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