Sacred Space: Shrine, City, Land : Proceedings From the International Conference in Memory of Joshua Prawer

Sacred Space: Shrine, City, Land - a collection of articles that deal with Holy Places from Antiquity to the present; from the lands of the Fertile Crescent to Europe, India, Japan and Mexico; from mountains and seas to temples, cities and countries; from the construction, perception and functioning of sacred sites to the psychotic breakdowns they bring on some visitors. Front Matter....Pages 1-8 Introduction: Mindscape and Landscape....Pages 9-17 Constructing a Small Place....Pages 18-31 A City of Many Temples: Ḫattuša, Capital of the Hittites....Pages 32-44 The Sacred Sea....Pages 45-54 Some Biblical Concepts of Sacred Place....Pages 55-72 The Temple in the Hellenistic Period and in Judaism....Pages 73-83 The Divinity as Place and Time and the Holy Place in Jewish Mysticism....Pages 84-111 Byzantium’s Dual Holy Land....Pages 112-126 Intellectual Activities in a Holy City: Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century....Pages 127-139 The Harem: a Major Source of Islam’s Military Might....Pages 140-150 Holy Body, Holy Society: Conflicting Medieval Structural Conceptions....Pages 151-171 Cities as Cultic Centres in Germany and Italy During the Early and High Middle Ages....Pages 172-191 Ambivalence and Longing: Vyāsa’s Curse on Kāśī....Pages 192-214 Geotyping Sacred Space: the Case of Mount Hiko in Japan....Pages 215-249 The Cult of Santa María Tonantzin, Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico....Pages 250-258 The Muslim Holy Cities as Foci of Islamic Revivalism in the Eighteenth Century....Pages 259-277 Hallowed Land in the Theory and Practice of Modern Nationalism....Pages 278-294 The Role of Charismatic Dreams in the Creation of Sacred Sites in Present-Day Israel....Pages 295-315 Facing a Holy Space: Psychiatric Hospitalization of Tourists in Jerusalem....Pages 316-330 Back Matter....Pages 331-348