Author : Philemon Sturges
Publisher : Putnam Juvenile
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religions
ISBN : 9780399233173
Describes various types of space which are sacred to different religions, including churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, and other shrines.
Author : James Swan
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 1990-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780939680665
Supporting Lovelock's thesis that the Earth is a living being, Swan suggests natural sites such as Serpent Mound, Machu Pichu, and Kilauea Center have the power to move us in ways modern science cannot explain.
Author : National Geographic
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781426203367
A listing of five hundred sites new and old, famous and unknown, that have been used to connect humanity with its gods.
Author : Brad Olsen
Publisher : CCC Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1888729317
World travelers and armchair tourists who want to explore the mythology and archaeology of the ruins, sanctuaries, mountains, lost cities, and temples of ancient civilizations will find this guide ideal. Detailed here are the monuments and sites where ancient peoples once gathered to perform sacred rituals and ceremonies to worship various gods and to achieve spiritual enlightenment. Important archaeological, historical, and geological destinations worldwide are profiled, from the Great Pyramid in Egypt and the Forbidden City in China to the Temples of Angkor in Cambodia and Mount Shasta in California. Sites are described in historical and cultural context, and practical contemporary travel information is provided, including detailed maps, drawings, photographs, and travel directions.
Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152699536
A collection of poems about different places around the world that are considered sacred by various cultures, including Mecca, the Ganges River, and Christian cathedrals.
Author : Tom H. Stoner
Publisher : Tkf Foundation
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 11,66 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780981565606
Sacred Places.
Author : John F. Sears
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781558491625
"Sears offers us not only an explanation of the popularity of certain tourist spots but also an enlightening discussion of the role that tourism played in helping Americans fashion a distinctive national culture in the six decades after 1820".--"American Historical Review". 85 illustrations.
Author : Klara Bonsack Kelley
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 28,50 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9780253208934
Author : Christoph Engels
Publisher : H F Ullmann
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Church architecture
ISBN : 9783833154805
A world travel to religious and spiritual sites. The book invites readers to embark on a spiritual journey through the history and the cultures of the world.
Author : Tsypylma Darieva
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,48 MB
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1785337823
Though long-associated with violence, the Caucasus is a region rich with religious conviviality. Based on fresh ethnographies in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the Russian Federation, Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces discusses vanishing and emerging sacred places in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious post-Soviet Caucasus. In exploring the effects of de-secularization, growing institutional control over hybrid sacred sites, and attempts to review social boundaries between the religious and the secular, these essays give way to an emergent Caucasus viewed from the ground up: dynamic, continually remaking itself, within shifting and indefinite frontiers.
