The Oxford handbook of religious space

How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience? This handbook brings together thirty-seven authors who address these questions using a range of methods to analyse specific spaces or types of spaces ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kilde, Jeanne Halgren (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Oxford University Press 2022, [2022]
Series:Oxford handbooks online / Oxford handbooks online
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Collection: Oxford Handbook Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience? This handbook brings together thirty-seven authors who address these questions using a range of methods to analyse specific spaces or types of spaces around the world and across time. Their methods are grounded in many disciplines: religious studies and religion, anthropology, archaeology, architectural history and architecture, cultural and religious history, sociology, gender and women's studies, geography, and political science, resulting in a distinctly interdisciplinary collection
Item Description:Also issued in print: 2022
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxvi, 585 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9780197641460