TY  - BOOK
AU  - Feldman,Cecelia
TI  - Locating the sacred: theoretical approaches to the emplacement of religion 
T2  - Oxbow/Joukowsky Institute Publication
SN  - 9781782976196
AV  - BL600 
U1  - 203/.8 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oakville
PB  - Oxbow Books
KW  - Ritual
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Religion and geography
KW  - Sacred space
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Reference
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION / Theology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Linear reflections : ritual memory and material reflection at the thirteen altars at lavinium / Claudia Moser -- Re-placing the Nile : water and mimesis in the Roman practice of Egyptian religion at Pergamon / Cecelia A. Feldman -- Itinerant creeds : the Chinese northern frontier / Paola Dematte -- The dig at the end of the world : archaeology and apocalypse, tourism in the valley of Armageddon / Isaac Morrison -- Power of place : ruler, landscape, and ritual space at the sanctuaries of Labraunda and Mamurt Kale in Asia Minor / Christina Williamson -- Transforming the surroundings and its impact on cult rituals : the case study of Artemis Mounichia in the Fifth Century / Chyssanthi Papadopoulou -- The sacred houses in Neolithic Wansan Society / Chih-hua Chiang and Yi-chang Liu -- Putting religious ritual in its place : on some ways humans cognitive predilections influence the locations and shapes of religious rituals / Robert N. McCauley -- The aptitude for scared space / Ian B. Straughn
N2  - Ritual happens in distinct places - in temples, in caves, along pilgrimage routes - and religious activities there incorporate a diverse set of objects such as holy water, cult statues, and sacred texts. Understanding religious ritual requires viewing it not as a disembodied event, but as emplaced, grounded in both built and natural surroundings, and integrated with its associated material objects. Here authors examine various religious practices in the Greco-Roman world and pilgrimage routes in contemporary Israel. Other contributions focus on the East, on domestic religion in prehistoric Tai
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