Sacred places and profane spaces : essays in the geographics of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, edited by Jamie Scott & Paul Simpson-Housley

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Sacred places and profane spaces : essays in the geographics of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, edited by Jamie Scott & Paul Simpson-Housley

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essays in the geographics of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

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edited by Jamie Scott & Paul Simpson-Housley

Instantiates

• Sacred places and profane spaces : essays in the geographics of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Publication

• New York, Greenwood Press, 1991

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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• nc

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text

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• txt

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Contents

• Introduction : the geographics of religion / Jamie S. Scott and Paul Simpson-Housley -- The Jewish religion and spatial and communal organization : the implementation of Jewish religious law in the building of urban neighborhoods and Jewish agricultural settlements in Palestine at the close of the nineteenth century / Yossi Katz -- The politics of sacred place : Jerusalem's Temple Mount/al-haram al-sharif / Roger Friedland and Richard D. Hecht -- The Temple and the Garden of Eden in Ezekiel, the Book of the Watchers, and the wisdom of ben Sira / Martha Himmelfarb -- The iconic self : Luther, culture, and landscape in Finland / Ronald Bordessa -- Diversities of divine presence : women's geography in the Christian tradition / Ellen Ross -- Mapping an apocalyptic world / Leonard L. Thompson
• Sacred circles : Iranian (Zoroastrian and Shi'ite Muslim) feasting and pilgrimage circuits / Michael J. Fischer -- The Mecca pilgrimage in the formation of Islam in modern Egypt / Juan Eduardo Campo -- Sacred geography in Islam / Annemarie Schimmel -- Afterword : the geographics of religion in a postmodern environment / Jamie S. Scott and Paul Simpson-Housley

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25 cm.

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xiv, 200 pages

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9780313263293

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90019896

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99189767920001161

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(OCoLC)22629602