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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      March 2012
      February 2012
      ISBN:
      9781139017640
      9781107429000
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139017640
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      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.92kg, 410 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Art, Architecture, Classical Art and Architecture
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    In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical cultures of the eastern Mediterranean. Essays address fundamental issues and features that enable buildings to perform as spiritually transformative spaces in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, early Christian, and Byzantine civilizations. Collectively they demonstrate the multiple ways in which works of architecture and their settings were active agents in the ritual process. Architecture did not merely host events; rather, it magnified and elevated them, interacting with rituals facilitating the construction of ceremony. This book examines comparatively the ways in which ideas and situations generated by the interaction of place, built environment, ritual action, and memory contributed to the cultural formulation of the sacred experience in different religious faiths.

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    '… this is an outstanding collection of essays, or 'micro-histories', as the editors note, providing both breadth and specificity in its examination of the complex problem of architecture, space, and ritual.'

    Jessica Paga Source: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

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