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Sacred Architecture and Public Space under the Conditions of a New Visibility of Religion
Embedded in the paradigm of the “New Visibility of Religion,” this article addresses the question of the significance of sacred buildings for public spaces. ‘Visibility’ is conceived as religion’s presence in cities through the medium of architecture. In
Jakob Helmut Deibl
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Sporting Space, Sacred Space: A Theology of Sporting Place
Religion often designates locations that are considered sacred, marked off from ordinary space. Sporting venues also take on a significance for players and supporters that is seldom adequately explained in solely sporting terms.
Robert Ellis
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This exploratory chapter proposes that the term sacred space is a misnomer in the Islamic context, since the binary concept of sacred and profane does not exist in premodern and earlier Islamic culture. Instead, the chapter argues, one should talk of opened space: space that is opened by rewardable, ritualised actions.
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The sacredness of places in magersari sunanate palace
Keraton (the Javanese palace) cannot be separated from the existence of sacred spaces and profane spaces manifested in the spatial hierarchy values. Magersari, a settlement located within the palace’s land, still recognizes the existence of profane and ...
Avi Marlina
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The aim of this paper is to point out the influence of the phenomenon of miracles and wonderworking in the creation of the sacred space of the medieval visual culture of Prilep. Special attention is devoted to the cult of the wonderworking Virgin Mary
Svetlana Smolčić Makuljević
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About Valdemaqueda. Designing a sacred space.
The Church of San Lorenzo in Valdemaqueda is located 65 km far from Madrid, in the Sierra de Guadarrama, 20 km far from the Escorial. It was designed and built by architect José Ignacio Linazasoro between 1997 and 2001.
José Ignacio Linazasoro
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Modification in the understanding of the sacred space in the Epistle to the Hebrews [PDF]
This article examines the structure of the heavenly sanctuary presented in the Epistle to the Hebrews and its diff erence from the structure of the Old Testament temple.
Sergey Davidoglu
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المقدس و العنف في التجربة الصوفية : حالة شمال شرق الصحراء الجزائرية
The relation between sacred and violence isn’t dialectal or structural. If violence comes from different multiple sources, the sacred is from one sole source which is religious.
محمد خالد
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The Rothko Chapel: Profane or Sacred Space?
Despite the atheism of renowned abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, the artist was commissioned by Christians to create a sacred space that was originally intended to be used by religious believers: the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas.
Mark Allen
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Raised Eyes and Humble Hearts:
As a mobile spatial field, the human body is a space and functions in space. The body governs spatial orientation and perceptions of direction, location and distance and determines human experiences and representations of space on the continuum between ...
Gert TM Prinsloo
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