Sacred text-- sacred space : architectural, spiritual and literary convergences in England and Wales /
This book is not designed to define the sacred. It is, rather, a bringing together of case histories (a rich, varied collection from medieval, early modern and nineteenth-century contexts in England and Wales) that goes beyond familiar paradigms to explore the dynamic, protean interaction, in differ...
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Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
Series:
Studies in Religion and the Arts
4.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2011, ISBN: 9789004223110.
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Call Number: BL580 .S23 2011
| Summary: | This book is not designed to define the sacred. It is, rather, a bringing together of case histories (a rich, varied collection from medieval, early modern and nineteenth-century contexts in England and Wales) that goes beyond familiar paradigms to explore the dynamic, protean interaction, in different times and places, between sacred space and text. Essentially an interdisciplinary enterprise, it focuses a range of historical and critical methodologies on that complex process of transformation and transmission whereby spiritual intuitions, experiences and teachings are made palpable 'in art and architecture, poetry and prayer, in histories, scriptures and liturgies, even landscapes. So the sacred, variously constructed and inscribed, makes itself felt 'on the pulse'; is a presence, a voice even now not stilled. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9789004216457 |
| ISSN: | 1877-3192 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |