Sacred Text -- Sacred Space by Joseph Sterrett
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.-
Spiritus Loci
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Inventing the Secular
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The Challenge of the Silver Screen
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In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing
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Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China
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Scorsese and Religion
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The Transformations of Tragedy
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Shakespeare and religio mentis
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Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture
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Performing the Sacred: Christian Representation and the Arts
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Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
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The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic
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The Crescent on the Temple
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The Unheard Prayer
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Transcendence and Sensoriness
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Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse
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A Heretical History of Architecture
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Beauty, Devotion and Spirituality
'Sacred text - Sacred space' is a fascinating collection, in which a series of absorbing insights into specific moments when space and text jointly established a sense of the sacred are woven subtly into a compelling narrative about how concepts of the sacred have altered between the early medieval period and the twentieth century- Chloe Kathleen Preedy - University of Cambridge in: Culture and Religion 2012
Joseph Sterrett is Assistant Professor of Literature in English at Aarhus University in Denmark. He has published articles examining the unheard prayer in Shakespeare's plays and the playwright's connection to his religious context.
Peter Thomas taught at Cardiff University. He is particularly interested in Stuart court culture, the impact of the English Civil War on literature, and Henry Vaughan, being General Editor of Scintilla, the annual journal of Vaughan Studies and New Poetry.
Peter Thomas taught at Cardiff University. He is particularly interested in Stuart court culture, the impact of the English Civil War on literature, and Henry Vaughan, being General Editor of Scintilla, the annual journal of Vaughan Studies and New Poetry.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789004202993 |
| ISBN 10 | 9004202994 |
| Title | Sacred Text -- Sacred Space |
| Author | Joseph Sterrett |
| Series | Studies In Religion And The Arts |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2011-11-11 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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