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Humanist perspectives on sacred space / edited by David Blanks, Bradley S. Clough ; contributions by Richard Byford [and others].

Contributor(s): Blanks, David R, 1961- | Clough, Bradley S | Byford, Richard
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Arabic Series: Cairo papers in social science: v. 31, monograph 1.Publisher: Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: iv, 181 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789774164491 (pbk.); 9774164490Subject(s): Sacred space -- History | Sacred space -- Egypt | Sacred space -- Middle East | Sacred space in literatureBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Sacred space : an introduction / David Blanks and Bradley S. Clough -- The sacrament of Mari Girgis : rituals of contact and consumption at a Coptic Orthodox saint's festival in Upper Egypt / Cassandra R. Chambliss -- Funerary rituals in Cairo's City of the Dead : the sacred and the profane, considerations from the field / Anna Tozzi Di Marco -- The features and functions of certain tombs in Cairo, Medina, and Aswan / Mark Sedgwick -- Communitas or contestation? : Buddhist-Hindu practices and interactions at "the holiest place in Sri Lanka" / Bradley S. Clough -- Galilee vs. Jerusalem : space and temporality in Mark's Gospel / Michael Reimer -- The serpent and the ship : imagination, memory, and rhetoric in early Byzantine Constantinople / A. C. S. Saunders -- Europe in Asia : mosques and temples in the age of discovery -- The Buddha in the dunes : the aesthetics of alienation and the sacred in the surreal Japanese novel / Richard Byford -- The resonance of the sacred : body, dimensionality, and place / Robert Switzer.

Summary, added title page, and back cover in Arabic.

Includes bibliographical references.

Sacred space : an introduction / David Blanks and Bradley S. Clough -- The sacrament of Mari Girgis : rituals of contact and consumption at a Coptic Orthodox saint's festival in Upper Egypt / Cassandra R. Chambliss -- Funerary rituals in Cairo's City of the Dead : the sacred and the profane, considerations from the field / Anna Tozzi Di Marco -- The features and functions of certain tombs in Cairo, Medina, and Aswan / Mark Sedgwick -- Communitas or contestation? : Buddhist-Hindu practices and interactions at "the holiest place in Sri Lanka" / Bradley S. Clough -- Galilee vs. Jerusalem : space and temporality in Mark's Gospel / Michael Reimer -- The serpent and the ship : imagination, memory, and rhetoric in early Byzantine Constantinople / A. C. S. Saunders -- Europe in Asia : mosques and temples in the age of discovery -- The Buddha in the dunes : the aesthetics of alienation and the sacred in the surreal Japanese novel / Richard Byford -- The resonance of the sacred : body, dimensionality, and place / Robert Switzer.

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