Sacred Space: Shrine, City, Land

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