Overview
- Brings new approaches to the emerging academic literature on silence
- Breaks disciplinary boundaries to inform and enrich a holistic understanding of place
- Offers an innovative approach to research on Mount Athos by bringing together varied streams of scholarship
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About this book
This book explores the topography of Mount Athos, emphasizing the significance of silence and communal ritual in its understanding. Mount Athos, a mountainous peninsula in northern Greece, is a valuable case study of sacred topography, as it is one of the world’s largest monastic communities and an important pilgrimage destination. Its phenomenological examination highlights the importance of embodiment in the experience of religious places. Combining interdisciplinary insights from architectural theory, philosophy, theology and anthropology with archival and ethnographic materials, the book brings a fresh contribution to both Athonite studies and scholarship on sacred space. By focusing on the interrelation between silence and communal ritual, it offers an alternative to the traditional art historical, objectifying approaches. It reintroduces the phenomenological understanding of place, investigating also how this is expressed through a number of narratives, such as travel literature, maps and diaries.
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About the author
Dr. Christos Antonios Kakalis is a Senior Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Place Experience of the Sacred
Book Subtitle: Silence and the Pilgrimage Topography of Mount Athos
Authors: Christos Kakalis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6214-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-6213-6Published: 23 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-6216-7Due: 15 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-6214-3Published: 22 February 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 182
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Arts, Religious Studies, general, Phenomenology, Cultural Studies, Archaeology