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SACRED LANGUAGES AND SACRED TEXTS

1988
Sacred Languages and Sacred Texts is the first comprehensive study of the role of languages and texts in the religions of the Greco-Roman world, including Judaism and Christianity. It explores bilingualism, language learning, literacy, book production and translation, as well as some of the more explicitly religious factors, including beliefs about ...
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From the Sacred to the Sacred Object

Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 2012
The philosophy of Bruno Latour has given us one of the most important statements on the part played by technology in the ordering of the human collective. Typically presented as a radical departure from mainstream social thought, Latour is not without his intellectual creditors: Michel Serres and, through him, René Girard.
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Sacred Sites, Sacred Places

2013
1. Sacred beliefs and beliefs of sacredness Jane Hubert and Brian Reeves 2. Wintu sacred geography of northern California Dorothea J.Theodoratus & Frank LaPena 3. Sacred and secular neolithic landscapes in Ireland Gabriel Cooney 4. Sacred Space in the Culture of the Arctic Regions O. V. Ovsyannikov & N. M. Terebikhin 5.
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Sacred Places and Sacred Landscapes

2012
AbstractThis article discusses sacred places and landscapes within Mesoamerica. Sacred places and landscapes are created and evolve through human acts. While these places may reflect the cosmological organizing principles of society, they are not merely cosmograms but dynamic, complex landscapes created as settings for the reenactments of mytho ...
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Sacred Place and Sacred Places

2022
Abstract Sacred places have characterized most known settled societies. They have been both religious, domestic, civil, and related to the natural world. The Renaissance looked back to both Greek and Roman models, but in Europe, the Gothic model retained its importance. A lively debate as to whether sacred spaces are needed, and if so
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Sacred Calm:

2023
This chapter focuses on the sections of Cowley’s Davideis that are formally labeled as digressions from its main narrative. It identifies two categories of digression, where the first is concerned with seventeenth-century ideas of the Sublime and inspiration, and the second with examples of Divine Providence in the Book of Genesis.
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Sacred Space for Sacred Sustainability

Landas: Journal of Loyola School of Theology, 2012
T he recent United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, held in Rio de Janeiro from June 20–22, 2012, with its ensuing document entitled The Future We Want , indicates that world leaders are coming to grips with the costs of development in relation to ecology. Amidst the multivocal discussions of the global summits thus far on sustainable
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The sacred path

Nursing, 2007
After one bad day, I was ready to quit nursing. But a patient I barely knew changed my mind.
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A Sacred Vertigo

2022
Built into a huge cliff in central France, the town of Rocamadour is a visual marvel and a place of contradictions. Pilgrims come to venerate its ancient Black Madonna but are outnumbered by secular tourists. Weibel provides an intimate look at the transformation of Rocamadour from a significant religious center to a tourist attraction; the efforts by ...
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