Archaeology of religious change
By: edited by Julia Shaw
Series: World archaeology -- v. 45, no. 1; World archaeology -- v. 45, no. 1.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Archaeology and religion; Christian antiquities; Islamic antiquities; Buddhist antiquities; Mayas; Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Archaeology of religious change: introduction / Julia Shaw; title: The earth, the sky and the water's edge: changing beliefs in the earlier prehistory of northern Europe / Richard Bradley and Courtney Nimura; title: The significance of places: the Christianization of Scandinavia from a spatial point of view / Anders Andrén; title: Fragments of a conversion: handling bodies and objects in pagan and Christian Scandinavia AD 800-100 / Julie Lund; title: 'The sieidi is a better altar/the noaidi drum's a purer church bell': a long-term changes and syncretism at Sámi offering sites / Tiina Äikäs and Anna-Kaisa Salmi; title: Archaeologies of Buddhist propagation in ancient India: ritual and practical models of religious change  / Julia Shaw; title: Islamicization or Islamicizations? Expansion of Islam and social practice in the Vega of Granada (south-east Spain) / José C. Carvajal; title: Beyond the dreamtime: archaeology and explorations of religious change in Australia / Peter Hiscock; title: Change and permanency on the coast of ancient Peru: the religious site of Pachacamac / Peter Eeckhout; title: The Spanish conquest and the Maya collapse: how 'religious' is change? / Elizabeth Graham, Scott E. Simmons and Christine D. White; title: Reformation of the English cathedral landscape: negotiating change in York Minster Close c.1500-1642 / Stefania Merlo Perring.