Loci Sacri

01. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-90-5867-842-3
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

Reihe: KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society

Sacred places have long exercised a special fascination. Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. They are the result of cultural developments and have varied multidimensional levels of significance. They are places where time is, as it were, suspended, and they are points where holy times and holy places meet. Sacred places are places apart.

It is this specificity in the context of the Christian religions of the West that Loci Sacri wishes to unveil by bringing together specialists from various disciplines, countries, and Christian denominations. One of the questions is why some sites have for centuries proven to be so popular while others have not. Another topic is the way in which extraordinary natural sites have been designated as sacred and given new meaning, primarily by means of architecture. Loci Sacri also explores the ‘eternal' character of this sacred status.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coomans, Thomas

De Dijn, Herman

De Maeyer, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Sakralbauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Introduction
Rajesh Heynickx, Thomas Coomans, Herman De Dijn, Jan De Maeyer & Bart Verschaffel

Spirituality and Scholarship.
Sacred Acts and Sacred Spaces
David N. Bell

What makes a Monastery a Sacred Place?
Armand Veilleux

TYPES

Introduction
Bart Verschaffel

The Scandal of Particularity.
Meaning, Incarnation, and Sacred Places
Herman De Dijn

(Sacred) Places are Made of Time.
Observations on the Persistence of the Sacred in Categorizing Space in Modernity
Bart Verschaffel

The House of God?
The Conceptualization of Sacred Places in the Hebrew Bible and beyond
Pierre Van Hecke

SITES

Introduction
Rajesh Heynickx

The Need and the Search for Sacred Places.
A Sociological Perspective
Liliane Voyé

Capturing Nameless Energies, Experiencing Matrixial Paradoxes.
Syncretist Sacred Sites on the Canary Islands
Paul Vandenbroeck

No Places of Pilgrimage without Devotion(s)
Charles M.A. Caspers

Representing Sacred Space.
Pilgrimage and Literature
Jamie S. Scott

Purported Sacrality.
The Ambiguous Past and Ironic Present of a Sometimes Sacred Mesoamerican Archaeological-Tourist Site
Lindsay Jones

What makes a Site Sacred?
Transforming 'Place' to 'Sacred Space'
Terryl N. Kinder

REUSING

Introduction
Thomas Coomans

Dedication Rituals and Two Models for the Sacralization of Space
Maarten Delbeke

Reuse of Sacred Places.
Perspectives for a Long Tradition
Thomas Coomans

'Heritagization' of Church Buildings.
Quebec and North American Perspectives
Luc Noppen & Lucie K. Morisset

Bibliography
Colophon
Authors

Über Autor(innen)

De Maeyer, Jan
Jan De Maeyer is full professor at KU Leuven and director of KADOC KU Leuven, Documentation and Research Centre for Religion, Culture and Society. He is president of the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome and author of several publications on political and social Catholicism, material Christianity, and the development of religious institutions.

Coomans, Thomas
Thomas Coomans is professor of architectural history and heritage conservation at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering Science, KU Leuven

De Dijn, Herman
Herman De Dijn is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.