Cultural Encounters and Tolerance Through Analyses of Social and Artistic Evidences: From History to the Present

Cultural Encounters and Tolerance Through Analyses of Social and Artistic Evidences: From History to the Present
Author: Alt?nöz, Meltem Özkan
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2022-02-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1799894401

Cultures around the world have recently become more isolated and aggressive in defending their socio-cultural domain. However, throughout history, many civilizations have established extensive and long-term cultural ties with diverse cultural groups. Despite ideological schisms that emerged between civilizations from time to time, our hunger for cultural encounters and coexistence shines through. Cultural Encounters and Tolerance Through Analyses of Social and Artistic Evidences: From History to the Present sheds light on different histories and presents evidence of cultural encounters, coexistence, and acculturation. This publication presents cultural assets as more mobile than ideologies across boundaries as it can be more often seen in the cultural arena. Covering topics such as the effects of colonialism, geometrical forms, and architectural heritage, it serves as an essential resource for architects, art historians, cultural historians, students and professors of higher education, sociologists, anthropologists, researchers, and academicians.

The Politics of Sacred Space

The Politics of Sacred Space
Author: Michael Dumper
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781588262264

Dumper explores how religious and political interests compete for control of the Old City of Jerusalem, and how this competition affects the Middle East conflict as a whole.

Philadelphia Architecture

Philadelphia Architecture
Author: John Andrew Gallery
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781589881105

This updated, comprehensive guide to Philadelphia's architecture will appeal to visitors, residents, and architecture enthusiasts.

Sacred Places

Sacred Places
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.

Sacred Spaces

Sacred Spaces
Author: Samina Quraeshi
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2010-03-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0873658590

Quraeshi provides a vision of Islam in South Asia enriched by art and by a female perspective on the diversity of Islamic expressions of faith. An account of a journey through the author’s childhood homeland, the book reveals the deeply spiritual nature of major centers of Sufism in the central and northwestern heartlands of South Asia.

Gods of the City

Gods of the City
Author: Robert A. Orsi
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1999-07-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780253212764

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The Sacred in the City

The Sacred in the City
Author: Liliana Gómez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2012-02-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1441172955

Analysis of (post-)secularized and modernized societies to define the state of the sacred today and to decipher its different forms within the city.

Machu Picchu

Machu Picchu
Author: Johan Reinhard
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2007-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1938770927

Machu Picchu, recently voted one of the New Wonders of the World, is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites, yet it remains a mystery. Even the most basic questions are still unanswered: What was its meaning and why was it built in such a difficult location? Renowned explorer Johan Reinhard attempts to answer such elusive questions from the perspectives of sacred landscape and archaeoastronomy. Using information gathered from historical, archaeological, and ethnographical sources, Reinhard demonstrates how the site is situated in the center of sacred mountains and associated with a sacred river, which is in turn symbolically linked with the sun's passage. Taken together, these features meant that Machu Picchu formed a cosmological, hydrological, and sacred geological center for a vast region.