_Religion, Culture, and Sacred Space

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This book proposes a new way of thinking about how a place becomes sacred and investigates the cultural considerations that influence the way a place becomes fixed in a society’s consciousness. Smith argues that intense emotional attachments to places are constructed by texts that attach a narrative to the physical landscape. Through an examination of a wide range of sites–including Abydos in ancient Egypt, Delos in classical Greece, and Mecca in medieval Islam—a new theory of the human relationship to space is elaborated. His is a theory that has implications for the way we go about preserving landscapes as well as the way we understand our own experience of the world.

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Smith, Martyn. Religion, culture, and sacred space. Springer, 2008.

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2008

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Palgrave Macmillan

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978–0–230–60830–6

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Martyn Smith

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Language

English

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Book Publications, Books

Student name

Gazbeya El-Hamamsy

College name

The American University in Cairo

Year of graduation

2010

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