Making Places Sacred :New Articulations of Place and Power - Elements in New Religious Movements

Making Places Sacred

Making Places Sacred :New Articulations of Place and Power - Elements in New Religious Movements

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Although claims to sacredness are often linked to the power of a distant past, the work of making places sacred is creative, novel, renewable, and reversible. This Element highlights how sacred space is newly made. It is often associated with blood, death, and geographic anomalies, yet no single feature determines sacred associations. People make space sacred by connecting with 'extrahuman' figures – the ancestors, spirits, and gods that people attempt to interact with in every society. These connections can be concentrated in people's bodies, yet bodies are particularly vulnerable to loss. The Element also examines the multidimensional and multisensory dimensions of sacred space, which can be made almost anywhere, including online, but can also be unmade. Unmaking sacred space can entail new sacralization. New and minority religions in particular provide excellent sites for studying sacredness as a value, raising the reliably productive question: sacred for whom?
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781009616317
ISBN10 1009616315
Number Of Pages 70
Item Weight 119 g
Product Dimensions 152 x 229 x 4 mm
Publisher / Reseller Cambridge University Press
Format paperback
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