Religion, culture, and sacred space
Our rough guess is there are 46,000 words in this book.
At a pace averaging 250 words per minute, this book will take 3 hours and 4 minutes to read. With a half hour per day, this will take 6 days to read.
How long will it take you?
This book will take an estimated to read at a reading speed averaging words per minute. With 30 minutes per day, this will take to read.
Enter your reading speedYou can take one of our WPM reading speed tests to find your reading speed.
Create a free account to track your reading progress, build your reading list, and set reading goals.
Author
Publication
2008 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
46,000 words, Guess
Page Count
184 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivereligioncultures00smit_449
- Internet Archivereligioncultures00smit
- Internet Archivereligioncultures0000smit
- ISBN-100230608302
- ISBN-139780230608306
and 6 more
- LibraryThing8677313
- Goodreads5551787
- Library of Congress Control Number2008007164
- OCLC Control Number212432474
- Better World Books9780230608306
- Open LibraryOL16636698M
Classifications
- DDC203/.5
- LCCBL580 .S65 2008
- LCCBL48
Description
"This book proposes a new way of thinking about how a place becomes sacred and investigates the cultural considerations that influence the way a place becomes fixed in a society's consciousness. Smith argues that intense emotional attachments to places are constructed by texts that attach a narrative to the physical landscape. Through an examination of a wide range of sites - including Abydos in ancient Egypt, Delos in classical Greece, and Mecca in medieval Islam - a new theory of human relationship to space is elaborated. His is a theory that has implications for the way we go about preserving landscapes as well as the way we understand our own experience of the world."--Jacket.
Subjects
Other Editions
- Religion, culture, and sacred space
Reader Reviews
No reviews yet for this book.
Be the first to share your thoughts!