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Spiritual Places

Author : Sarah Baxter

Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA

Page : 147 pages

File Size : 31,62 MB

Release : 2018-07-31

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1781317747

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From the natural splendour of Devils Tower in Wyoming, to the medieval pilgrimage of Camino de Santiago that stretches to Spain, Inspired Traveller's Guides: Spiritual Places explores locations that will be a balm to the mind and a tonic to the soul. Travel journalist Sarah Baxter has carefully curated a selection of the 25 most spiritual destinations from around the world – places that hold the promise of rare and profound experiences, whether areas of natural beauty imbued with spiritual significance or sites constructed for worship. From breathtaking scenery to religious capitals, sacred valleys to places of natural beauty, here the full spiritual story and unique tranquillity of each place is revealed with beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and evocative tales of previous visitors that will both delight and inspire. Featured locations: Crater Lake, Oregon, USA; Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA; Devils Tower, Wyoming, USA; Haida Gwai, Canada; Teotihuacan, Mexico; Lake Titicaca, Bolivia and Peru; Easter Island, Chile; St Catherine's Monastery, Egypt; Kyoto, Japan; Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar; Adam's Peak, Sri Lanka; Varanasi and the Ganges, India; Mount Kailash, China; Cape Reinga, New Zealand; Uluru, Australia; Saut d'Eau waterfall, Haiti; Camino de Santiago, Spain; Mezquita de Cordoba, Spain; Isle of Iona, Scotland; Avebury, England; Mont St-Michel, France; Lourdes, France; Luther Trail and Wittenburg Cathedral, Germany; Mount Olympus, Greece; Temple Mount and Jerusalem, Israel. Perfect for those who want to get away from it all, this book takes you closer to these sacred locations than ever before. Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series, explore intriguing: Artistic Places (March 2021), Literary Places, Hidden Places and Mystical Places.



Spiritual Places

Author : Antony Mason

Publisher : Quercus Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 40,58 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Sacred space

ISBN : 9781782068549

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50 of the most spectacular holy sites in the world.



Around the World in 80 Spiritual Places

Author : Alice Peck

Publisher : Ryland Peters & Small

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 38,92 MB

Release : 2022-08-16

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1800651503

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Discover some of the world's most awe-inspiring and holy places, from Stonehenge to Uluru, and Walden Pond to Angkor Wat. Humans have always searched for and created meaning in the world around them, whether in breathtakingly stunning natural features and phenomena, acknowledging the ancient home of a particular faith or movement, or honouring the location of a significant event. In this beautifully illustrated guide, Alice Peck discusses what makes a place spiritual – whether reaches of time, geography, the provision of sustenance or inspiration, or mystery and magic – and then explores 80 such locations around the globe. Rather than a comprehensive travel guide, the description of each one includes a detail or tip – something beautiful, strange, relatively unknown or unfamiliar – to allow readers to deepen their focus and perhaps experience the place in a different way than they might expect. If you are unable to travel at this time, this book will help you plan your next adventure. And if you are trying to limit your carbon footprint, each destination is accompanied by a related meditation, prayer, practice or quotation to help you connect to the spirit of it from your own home.



Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places

Author : Eugene H. Peterson

Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Page : 381 pages

File Size : 42,93 MB

Release : 2008-01-29

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0802862977

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Lamenting the vacuous, often pagan nature of contemporary American spirituality, Peterson firmly grounds spirituality once more in Trinitarian theology and offers a clear, practical statement of what it means to actually live out the Christian life.



Magickal Places

Author : Patricia Telesco

Publisher : Citadel Press

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 21,80 MB

Release : 2000

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN : 9780806521381

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Book Description

Tour sacred magickal locations all over the world - and learn how to tap into the sacred energy in magickal places - as well as innate energy within yourself.



Mystical Places

Author : Sarah Baxter

Publisher : White Lion Publishing

Page : 147 pages

File Size : 11,95 MB

Release : 2020-09-15

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1781319588

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Book Description

Journey to the world's most enigmatic and magical destinations with this charming guide, full of folklore, unworldly mysteries and far-flung fairy tale locales.



Queer Spiritual Spaces

Author : Kath Browne

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 43,47 MB

Release : 2016-05-23

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 131707260X

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Drawn from extensive, new and rich empirical research across the UK, Canada and USA, Queer Spiritual Spaces investigates the contemporary socio-cultural practices of belief, by those who have historically been, and continue to be, excluded or derided by mainstream religions and alternative spiritualities. As the first monograph to be directly informed by 'queer' subjectivities whilst dealing with divergent spiritualities on an international scale, this book explores the recently emerging innovative spaces and integrative practices of queer spiritualities. Its breadth of coverage and keen critical engagement mean it will serve as a theoretically fertile, comprehensive entry point for any scholar wishing to explore the queer spiritual spaces of the twenty-first century.



Beliefs and Holy Places

Author : James S. Griffith

Publisher : University of Arizona Press

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 36,63 MB

Release : 1993-09-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0816514070

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The region once known as Pimer’a AltaÑnow southern Arizona and northern SonoraÑhas for more than three centuries been a melting pot for the beliefs of native Tohono O'odham and immigrant Yaquis and those of colonizing Spaniards and Mexicans. One need look no further than the roadside crosses along desert highways or the diversity of local celebrations to sense the richness of this cultural commingling. Folklorist Jim Griffith has lived in the Pimer’a Alta for more than thirty years, visiting its holy places and attending its fiestas, and has uncovered a background of belief, tradition, and history lying beneath the surface of these cultural expressions. In Beliefs and Holy Places, he reveals some of the supernaturally sanctioned relationships that tie people to places within that region, describing the cultural and religious meanings of locations and showing how bonds between people and places have in turn created relationships between places, a spiritual geography undetectable on physical maps. Throughout the book, Griffith shows how culture moves from legend to art to belief to practice, all the while serving as a dynamic link between past and future. Now as the desert gives way to newcomers, Griffith's book offers visitors and residents alike a rare opportunity to share in these rich traditions.



Sacred Places

Author : Philip Carr-Gomm

Publisher : Quercus Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 14,75 MB

Release : 2009-10-09

Category : Pilgrims and pilgrimages

ISBN : 9781847242402

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Book Description

Includes sites from Africa, Middle East, Europe, The Americas, Oceania, and Asia.



Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts

Author : Terence Heng

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 298 pages

File Size : 31,6 MB

Release : 2020-12-02

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 0429792778

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How do individuals inscribe their spiritual identities and diasporic ethnicities in the city? Through a series of sociological and photographic essays, Terence Heng maps the various rituals, collectives, individuals and events that characterise Chinese religion practices in Singapore. From spirit mediums to the Hungry Ghost Festival, each chapter engages with the social, the spatial and the ephemeral, and in so doing it will explore the significance and relevance of Chinese religion in a secular nation-state; reveal the strategies and tactics used by diasporic individuals to perform and retain their identities; uncover the importance of flow and fluidity in the making of sacred space; and evidence the value and efficacy of the use of photographs in social research. Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts is a ground-breaking exploration into the intersections between visual sociology, cultural geography and creative photographic practice. A visual monograph that gives equal importance to image and text, it interrogates the tensions between sacred and profane, official and unofficial, state and individual, physical and spiritual, peeling away the myriad layers of the spiritual imagination.