Sacred Space: Shrine, City, Land

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Mindscape and Landscape

   • R. J. Zwi Werblowsky

   Pages 9-17

3. Constructing a Small Place

   • Jonathan Z. Smith

   Pages 18-31

4. A City of Many Temples: Ḫattuša, Capital of the Hittites

   • Itamar Singer

   Pages 32-44

5. The Sacred Sea

   • Abraham Malamat

   Pages 45-54

6. Some Biblical Concepts of Sacred Place

   • Sara Japhet

   Pages 55-72

7. The Temple in the Hellenistic Period and in Judaism

   • Doron Mendels

   Pages 73-83

8. The Divinity as Place and Time and the Holy Place in Jewish Mysticism

   • Haviva Pedaya

   Pages 84-111

9. Byzantium’s Dual Holy Land

   • Evelyne Patlagean

   Pages 112-126

10. Intellectual Activities in a Holy City: Jerusalem in the Twelfth Century

    • Benjamin Z. Kedar

    Pages 127-139

11. The Harem: a Major Source of Islam’s Military Might

    • David Ayalon

    Pages 140-150

12. Holy Body, Holy Society: Conflicting Medieval Structural Conceptions

    • Kenneth R. Stow

    Pages 151-171

13. Cities as Cultic Centres in Germany and Italy During the Early and High Middle Ages

    • Alfred Haverkamp

    Pages 172-191

14. Ambivalence and Longing: Vyāsa’s Curse on Kāśī

    • David Shulman

    Pages 192-214

15. Geotyping Sacred Space: the Case of Mount Hiko in Japan

    • Allan G. Grapard

    Pages 215-249

16. The Cult of Santa María Tonantzin, Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico

    • Richard Nebel

    Pages 250-258

17. The Muslim Holy Cities as Foci of Islamic Revivalism in the Eighteenth Century

    • Nehemia Levtzion, Gideon Weigert

    Pages 259-277

18. Hallowed Land in the Theory and Practice of Modern Nationalism

    • Hedva Ben-Israel

    Pages 278-294

19. The Role of Charismatic Dreams in the Creation of Sacred Sites in Present-Day Israel

    • Yoram Bilu

    Pages 295-315

20. Facing a Holy Space: Psychiatric Hospitalization of Tourists in Jerusalem

    • Moshe Kalian, Eliezer Witztum

    Pages 316-330

Sacred Space: Shrine, City, Land - a collection of articles that deal with Holy Places from Antiquity to the present; from the lands of the Fertile Crescent to Europe, India, Japan and Mexico; from mountains and seas to temples, cities and countries; from the construction, perception and functioning of sacred sites to the psychotic breakdowns they bring on some visitors.

• Islam
• Japan
• Judaism
• society

• Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

  Benjamin Z. Kedar, R. J. Zwi Werblowsky

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