Religion, Culture, and Sacred Space [electronic resource] /
Smith, M.author.
Religion, Culture, and Sacred Spaces is a comparative exploration into the nature of the human relationship to physical space advancing the startling thesis that the human capacity for narrative and identity imbues landscapes with meaning and sacredness.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-180) and index.
How to build places with words -- Abydos: inventing a landscape -- Delos: the soft power of poetry -- Mecca: through the eyes of a pilgrim -- A storied wilderness.
Religion, Culture, and Sacred Spaces is a comparative exploration into the nature of the human relationship to physical space advancing the startling thesis that the human capacity for narrative and identity imbues landscapes with meaning and sacredness.
Religion—History.
History of Religion.