Author: David Douglas
Publisher: Godsfield
ISBN: 9781841813288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Book Description
This beautifully illustrated guide explores the connections between people, faith, and landscape and features plans, reconstructions, and stunning photography of little-known holy sites. Beginning with the magnificent cathedrals, mosques, and temples of the world's great religions and concluding with earthworks, and holy mountains, wells, and rivers, it traces the wisdom these spots embody and explores the ways in which we gain spiritual insights from them today. The examination of sites of pilgrimage, sacred stones, and places of isolation and meditation-from the Chapel of the Nativity of Christ in Jerusalem to Mount Tai Shan, the most revered of China's five sacred mountains-make this an essential reference work for anyone fascinated by ancient traditions and religions.
Author: James Harpur
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780304345106
Category : Sacred space
Languages : da
Pages : 240
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Et billedværk i farver om verdens religiøse helligdomme, deres tilblivelse, historie, arkæologi og funktion i dag
Author: James Harpur
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781568523569
Category : Sacred space
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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Evocative essays describe religious sites and explain the spiritual significance of each as well as it connections with religious leaders and holy figures. Color photographs and paintings capture the detail of cathedrals, mosques, and ancient shrines.
Author: Colin Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780864500588
Category : Atlases, Australian
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Explains their myths and legends and shows their continued importance down the ages. Over 100 key sites are examined.
Author: Colin Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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This account of holy sites and mysterious ruins aims to capture the spirit of the places themselves. It explains their myths and legends and shows their continuing importance down the ages. Part One examines over 100 key sites and shows how they came to be regarded as sacred and their subsequent history. The sites are divided geographically into sections, such as Africa and the Middle East, Europe and Australia, and the Pacific. Each of these areas is introduced by a hand-drawn map showing all of the sites described and other areas of interest, such as ancient burial grounds, temples and natural sites. Part Two is a map-based gazetteer of over 1000 sacred sites. The sites are plotted over 20 maps, which are then followed by listings giving information about each holy place. The maps show the location of each site and the period in which it was built or used.
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 9781426203367
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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A listing of five hundred sites new and old, famous and unknown, that have been used to connect humanity with its gods.
Author: Brad Olsen
Publisher: CCC Publishing
ISBN: 9781888729023
Category : Sacred space
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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A travel guide to the world's most sacred locales offers travel tips and detailed maps to the Great Pyramid, Easter Island, the Himalayas, Ayers Rock, Chaco Canyon, Jericho, Delphi, Stonehenge, and Mayan ruins, among other sites of spiritual importance. Original.
Author: Stanley D. Brunn
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 940179376X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 3926
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Book Description
This extensive work explores the changing world of religions, faiths and practices. It discusses a broad range of issues and phenomena that are related to religion, including nature, ethics, secularization, gender and identity. Broadening the context, it studies the interrelation between religion and other fields, including education, business, economics and law. The book presents a vast array of examples to illustrate the changes that have taken place and have led to a new world map of religions. Beginning with an introduction of the concept of the “changing world religion map”, the book first focuses on nature, ethics and the environment. It examines humankind’s eternal search for the sacred, and discusses the emergence of “green” religion as a theme that cuts across many faiths. Next, the book turns to the theme of the pilgrimage, illustrated by many examples from all parts of the world. In its discussion of the interrelation between religion and education, it looks at the role of missionary movements. It explains the relationship between religion, business, economics and law by means of a discussion of legal and moral frameworks, and the financial and business issues of religious organizations. The next part of the book explores the many “new faces” that are part of the religious landscape and culture of the Global North (Europe, Russia, Australia and New Zealand, the U.S. and Canada) and the Global South (Latin America, Africa and Asia). It does so by looking at specific population movements, diasporas, and the impact of globalization. The volume next turns to secularization as both a phenomenon occurring in the Global religious North, and as an emerging and distinguishing feature in the metropolitan, cosmopolitan and gateway cities and regions in the Global South. The final part of the book explores the changing world of religion in regards to gender and identity issues, the political/religious nexus, and the new worlds associated with the virtual technologies and visual media.
Author: Martin Gray
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402747373
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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... "Twenty years of photographs by photographer and anthropologist Martin Gray. Accompanying each photograph is commentary that takes us into the history, mythology and spiritual magnetism of the particular place ..."--Jacket.
Author: Bernyce Barlow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781567180565
Category : Sacred space
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"Described in the book are seventy-three "sacred centers," in the Western United States recognized for their abilities to heal, purify, and rejuvenate--along with the holy history, earth physics, and legends of each."--Publisher Marketing.
