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Author | : Philemon Sturges |
Publisher | : Putnam Juvenile |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1990-04 |
Genre | : 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 |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : 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 | : Jane Yolen |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : 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 | : Brad Olsen |
Publisher | : CCC Publishing |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2004-02-01 |
Genre | : 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 | : Klara Bonsack Kelley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Economic development |
ISBN | : 9780253208934 |
Author | : Rudolph Wurlitzer |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1995-09-11 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : |
Hard Travel to Sacred Places is the record of a personal odyssey through Southeast Asia, an external and internal journey through grief and the painful realities of a decadent age. Wurlitzer—novelist, screenwriter, and Buddhist practitioner—travels with his wife, photographer Lynn Davis, on a photo assignment to the sacred sites of Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia. Heavy Westernization, sex clubs, aging hippies and expatriates, and political dissidents provide a vivid contrast to the peace that Wurlitzer and Davis seek, still reeling from the death of their son in a car accident. As Davis with her camera searches for a thread of meaning among the artifacts and relics of a more enlightened age, Wurlitzer grasps at the wisdom of the Buddhist teachings in an effort to assuage his grief. His journal chronicles the survival of age-old truths in a world gone mad.
Author | : Roger W. Moss |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
This opulent volume, by the author and photographer of the acclaimed Historic Houses of Philadelphia, will serve as a guide through the architectural and religious traditions of Philadelphia, complete with maps, telephone numbers, and web sites.
Author | : John F. Sears |
Publisher | : Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : 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 | : Tsypylma Darieva |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : 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.