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The Oxford Handbook of R E L I G I O U S S PAC E The Oxford Handbook of RELIGIOUS SPACE Edited by JEANNE HALGREN KILDE Associate Editors BARBARA R. AMBROS DAVID BAINS SUSAN L. GRAHAM LEONARD NORMAN PRIMIANO DAVID SIMONOWITZ Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2022 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Ambros, Barbara, 1968- editor. | Bains, David, editor. | Graham, Susan Lochrie, editor. | Primiano, Leonard Norman, editor. | Simonowitz, David, editor. Title: The Oxford handbook of religious space / Edited by Jeanne Halgren Kilde, associate editors, Barbara Ambros, David Bains, Susan L. Graham, Leonard Norman Primiano, David Simonowitz. Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2022000261 (print) | LCCN 2022000262 (ebook) | ISBN 9780190874988 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190875008 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Sacred space. | Religious facilities. Classification: LCC BL580 .O94 2022 (print) | LCC BL580 (ebook) | DDC 203/.5—dc23/eng20220311 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022000261 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022000262 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190874988.001.0001 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Integrated Books International, United States of America In memory of our friend Leonard Norman Primiano (1957– 2021), inspiring colleague, passionate scholar, acute observer of religious life Contents List of Illustrations xi Acknowledgments xvii Contributors xix Table of Approaches xxvii Introduction: Thinking about Religious Space: An Introduction to Approaches 1 Jeanne Halgren Kilde PART I. THEORY AND METHOD FOR APPROACHING RELIGIOUS SPACES AND LOCATIONS 1. C onceptualizing Space and Place: Genealogies of Change in the Study of Religion 25 Juan E. Campo 2. Th e Hermeneutics of 21st-C entury Sacred Space 44 Michael J. Crosbie 3. U rbanism and Religious Space 58 Paul-F rançois Tremlett 4. S hared Space, or Mixed? 71 Robert M. Hayden 5. D ecommissioning and Reuse of Liturgical Architectures: Historical Processes and Temporal Dimensions 85 Andrea Longhi 6. Th e Impermanence of Religious Space: Three Models for Approaching Change in the American Religioscape 100 Jeanne Halgren Kilde viii Contents 7. P lanetary Identities: Globalization, Climate Change, and Meaning- Making Practices 115 Whitney A. Bauman PART II. RELIGIOUS SPACES AND BUILDINGS ACROSS THE GLOBE Asia 8. W hose Place Is It? Layers of Community and Meaning in the Land of Shinto and Power Spots 131 Caleb Carter 9. R eligious Place/S pace in Premodern China 147 Wei- Cheng Lin 10. N ational Treasures versus Alien Species: Religious Spaces, Raccoons, and National Identity in Contemporary Japan 163 Barbara R. Ambros 11. V isualizing Himalayan Buddhist Sacred Sites in 3D/V R: Pedagogy and Partnership 176 Lauren Leve and Bradley Erickson Middle East 12. F orm and Function in the Ancient Synagogue: Evidence from Roman and Byzantine Palestine and the Diaspora 195 Marilyn J. Chiat 13. A Little Bit of Evil: Masjid Kūfa in Early Twelver Shī‘ism 209 Najam Haider 14. M ediated Spaces of Collective Ritual: Sacred Selfies at the Hajj 227 Nadia Caidi and Mariam Karim 15. ( In)visible Priorities: Epigraphic Power and Identity at a Jordanian State Mosque 244 David Simonowitz Contents ix Africa and the African Diaspora 16. E xploration of Religious Spaces in Western Africa: Combining Approaches to Understand Spaces 263 Daniel Dei 17. R eligious Spaces as Tourist Sites in Ghana 276 Alice Matilda Nsiah 18. S acred Space in Nineteenth-C entury Cape Town: Mosque, City, Landscape, and a Radical Empiricism of the Spatial 293 Ozayr Saloojee 19. M apping the Spiritual Baptist Universe: Black Atlantic Cosmography and the Spatiality of Spirit in Trinidad and Tobago 308 Brendan Jamal Thornton Europe and the Mediterranean 20. Spaces of Roman Religion and Christianity in Late Antiquity 327 Béatrice Chevallier Caseau 21. P resence and Performance: Orthodox Spaces of the Eastern Roman Empire 344 Amy Papalexandrou 22. R emnants of Israel: Jewish Spaces and Landscapes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe 359 Jessica Renee Streit and Barry L. Stiefel 23. Th e Religious Landscape and Its Architecture in Contemporary Europe 376 Esteban Fernández-C obián The Americas 24. Pre- Columbian and Indigenous Religious Spaces in Mesoamerica 393 Brent K. S. Woodfill 25. P rotestant Architecture in Latin America 407 Rodrigo Vidal Rojas
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