Architecture of the Sacred
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Architecture of the Sacred

Space, Ritual, and Experience from Classical Greece to Byzantium

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Architecture of the Sacred

Space, Ritual, and Experience from Classical Greece to Byzantium

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In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative spaces in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine civilizations. Collectively they demonstrate the multiple ways in which works of architecture and their settings were active agents in the ritual process. Architecture did not merely host events; rather, it magnified and elevated them, interacting with rituals facilitating the construction of ceremony. This book examines comparatively the ways in which ideas and situations generated by the interaction of place, built environment, ritual action, and memory contributed to the cultural formulation of the sacred experience in different religious faiths.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9781139227674
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. ARCHITECTURE OF THE SACRED
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  7. CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS
  8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  9. PREFACE
  10. CHAPTER ONE: MATERIAL CULTURE AND RITUAL: STATE OF THE QUESTION
  11. CHAPTER TWO: MONUMENTAL STEPS AND THE SHAPING OF CEREMONY
  12. CHAPTER THREE: COMING AND GOING IN THE SANCTUARY OF THE GREAT GODS, SAMOTHRACE
  13. CHAPTER FOUR: ENTERING DEMETER’S GATEWAY: THE ROMAN PROPYLON IN THE CITY ELEUSINION
  14. CHAPTER FIVE: ARCHITECTURE AND RITUAL IN ILION, ATHENS, AND ROME
  15. CHAPTER SIX: THE SAME, BUT DIFFERENT: THE TEMPLE OF JUPITER OPTIMUS MAXIMUS THROUGH TIME
  16. CHAPTER SEVEN: MAPPING SACRIFICE ON BODIES AND SPACES IN LATE ANTIQUE JUDAISM AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY
  17. CHAPTER EIGHT: THE “FOUNDATION DEPOSIT” FROM THE DURA EUROPOS SYNAGOGUE RECONSIDERED
  18. CHAPTER NINE: SIGHT LINES OF SANCTITY AT LATE ANTIQUE MARTYRIA
  19. CHAPTER TEN: THE SANCTITY OF PLACE AND THE SANCTITY OF BUILDINGS: JERUSALEM VERSUS CONSTANTINOPLE
  20. CHAPTER ELEVEN: DIVINE LIGHT: CONSTRUCTING THE IMMATERIAL IN BYZANTINE ART AND ARCHITECTURE
  21. CHAPTER TWELVE: STRUCTURE, AGENCY, RITUAL, AND THE BYZANTINE CHURCH
  22. AFTERWORD
  23. INDEX