Place Experience of the Sacred: Silence and the Pilgrimage Topography of Mount Athos

Foreword
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Exploring the Sacred
2: The Mountain
	2.1	 The Mountain of Athos
	2.2	 Ascending to the Peak of the Mountain
	2.3	 The Desert, the Cave and the Hermitage
3: The Footpaths
	3.1	 Walking Through the Athonite Landscape
4: The Monastery and the Cell
	4.1	 The Monastery
	4.2	 Silence and Communal Ritual in the Courtyards of the Monastery
	4.3	 The Cells, the Silent Courtyard and the Talanton Rite
5: The Main Church (Katholikon)
	5.1	 The Katholikon
	5.2	 Stillness
	5.3	 Seeing
	5.4	 Light
	5.5	 Movement
	5.6	 Sound
	5.7	 Visitors
6: Silence and Ritual of Communal Meals
7: The Cemetery and the Grave
	7.1	 Journey and the ‘Memory of Death’
	7.2	 Ritual ‘Memory of the Death’: The Death, the Funeral and the Burial of the Athonite
	7.3	 ‘Memory of Death’ and Place: The Cemetery, the Grave and the Ossuary
8: Athonite Embodied Topography
	8.1	 Topos
	8.2	 Topography
	8.3	 Moving Through the Topography
Afterword
Index