ISBN:
978-1-350-06289-4
,
978-1-350-06291-7 / (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)
,
978-1-350-06290-0
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 268 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
Keywords:
Landschaft Geographie
;
Christentum
;
Natur
;
Sakraler Ort
;
Religion
;
Beziehungen Mensch-Umwelt
;
Beziehungen Natur-Kultur
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
;
Landschaftsformen
;
Religionsethnologie
Abstract:
How do Christians make relationships with land central to their faith? How have the realities of materiality, geography, and ecology shaped Christian territories of belonging and theologies of territory? What social-economic-political conditions surround exchanges between religion and nature?This book explores how Christianity intersects with nature to create unique religious landscapes. Case studies range from the Mormon Trail across the USA completed by thousands every year, to the Catholic devotional cult of and shrine to St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. Contributors examine the entangled forms of agency between nature and culture that are at work as Christians produce, consume, experience, imagine, inhabit, manage, and struggle over formations of land.Focusing on Christian engagements with land forms in the early 21st century, this book advances the spatial turn in the study of religion, contributes to the anthropology of religion and the study of global Christianities, as well as our understanding of the relationship between Christianity, space and place.
Description / Table of Contents:
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Foreword -- Introduction: Landscape Processes in the Making of Christianities -- Part I: Destinations -- Chapter 1: Galactic shrines and the Catholic Cult of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina -- Chapter 2: Sacralizing the Landscape: Water and the Development of a Pilgrimage Shrine -- Chapter 3: Crucifix and Dirt: Catholic and Indigenous Origins of the Holy Earth of the Santuario de Chimayó -- Chapter 4: Captivating Landscapes: Gender and Religion in Mormon Captivity Narratives -- Part II: Part Two Temporalities -- Chapter 5: From the Messiah's Glade to the Gods' Mountains: Christian Landscapes of Africa and Asia -- Chapter 6: Geography as Eschatology: Moral Freedom and Prophecy Fulfillment on Land and at Sea -- Chapter 7: Imagining an Ethnic Ecumene: Evangelical Landscapes as Gentile, Jewish, and Native in the American South -- Part III: Transformations -- Chapter 8: Landscape as Expressive Resource in Materializing the Bible -- Chapter 9: When Mountains Move: Athonite Processions, Sacred Performance, and Overlapping Topographies -- Chapter 10: The Garden of Eden in an Era of Over-Tourism: (Managing) New Testament Sacred Groves in the Holy Land -- Afterword: On Placing and Displacing in Christianity -- The Work That Landscape Does: On Placing and Displacing in Christianity -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 238-264
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