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|aSmith, Martyn.
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|aReligion, culture, and sacred space|h[electronic resource] /|cMartynSmith.
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|a1st ed.
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|aNew York, NY :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2008.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [173]-180) and index.
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|aHow to build places with words -- Abydos: inventing a landscape -- Delos: the soft power of poetry -- Mecca: through the eyes of a pilgrim -- A storied wilderness.
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|aThis 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 thatattach 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 humanrelationship 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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|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2009.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on Mar. 3, 2009).|nAccess may berestricted to users at subscribing institutions.
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|aSacred space.
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