Religious Representation in Place: Exploring Meaningful Spaces at the Intersection of the Humanities and Sciences

294 Pages·2014·5.597 MB·English

by  Mark K. George, Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati (eds.)

RELIGIOUS REPRESENTATION IN PLACE
RELIGION AND SPATIAL STUDIES
Series editor: Mark K. George
The critical study and analysis of space examines a wide range of
spatial questions, including how religions and religious practitioners
build, arrange, and live within physical space; how they conceive and
logically organize, classify, and design space; and the complex socio-
religious meanings and significations ascribed to space by those who
use and occupy it, including meanings that often become the basis
for contestation and conflict. This series also analyzes how religion
stands alongside various disciplines as opposed to being subsumed
by them.
Religious Representation in Place: Exploring Meaningful
Spaces at the Intersection of the Humanities and Sciences
Edited by Mark K. George and Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
Foucault’s Heterotopia in Christian Catacombs:
Constructing Spaces and Symbols in Ancient Rome
Eric C. Smith
Religious Representation in Place

Exploring Meaningful Spaces at the
Intersection of the Humanities and
Sciences
Edited by
Mark K. George
and
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
RELIGIOUS REPRESENTATION IN PLACE
Copyright © Mark K. George and Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, 2014.
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Religious representation in place : exploring meaningful spaces at the
intersection of the humanities and sciences / edited by Mark K. George,
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati.
pages cm.—(Religion and spatial studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Sacred space. 2. Space—Religious aspects. 3. Place (Philosophy)
4. Humanities. 5. Science. I. George, Mark K., 1962– editor.
BL580.R46 2014
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First edition: October 2014
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To
Quinn and Ryan Martindale-George
Noè Archimede and Leandro Elia Pezzoli
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Contents

List of Figures xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction 1
Mark K. George and Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
Section I Theoretical Frameworks for
Approaching Space
Chapter 1
How Children Develop an Understanding of Space:
A Developmental Pediatric Perspective 15
Remo H. Largo
Chapter 2
Meaningless Space?: Astrophysics and Theology 23
Arnold O. Benz
Chapter 3
Faith and the Map: On the Metaphysical Nature
of Visual Spatial Representation 35
Franco Farinelli
Chapter 4
Human Dwelling: A Philosophical Question
Concerning Place and Space 47
Carla Danani
viii CONTENTS
Section II Representing Space in Ancient
and Medieval Contexts
Chapter 5
Analyzing Embodied Space in Ancient Israel’s
Tabernacle: A Biblical Studies Perspective 63
Mark K. George
Chapter 6
Sacred Spaces in the Book of Hosea: The Intersection
of Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient Israel
from a Feminist-Theological Perspective 75
Christl M. Maier
Chapter 7
Mapping Our Last Places: Apocalyptic Space and
Imagery at Chartres Cathedral—A Social and
Visual Analysis of Imagined Space 89
Katherine Rousseau
Chapter 8
Invisible Spaces between Cosmology and Biography:
An Approach to the Afterlife in Visual Media 105
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
Section III Representing Space in
Contemporary Contexts
Chapter 9
Ornament and the Other: Sacred Spaces and Religious
Identities in Andalusia 125
S. Brent Plate
Chapter 10
Spaces of Ridicule: Spatial Differentiation of the Caricature
in Eighteenth-Century England from the Perspective
of the Study of Religion 143
Monika Glavac
Chapter 11
In Search of Orientation in Cinematic Spaces: The Journey
Motif in Fiction Film from a Transdisciplinary
Perspective of Film and Religious Studies 159
Marie-Therese Mäder
CONTENTS ix
Chapter 12
Clothing as a Meaningful Marker of Space:
A Comparative Approach to Embodied Religion
from a Cultural Studies Perspective 177
Anna-Katharina Höpflinger
Chapter 13
In Quest of the Known: Multiple Spaces as an Essential
Component of Traveling Experiences from
a Social Sciences’ Perspective 193
Tommi Mendel
Chapter 14
The Town beyond the Modern: A Biographical
Reflection about Space, Time, and Spirituality 211
Carl Fingerhuth
Chapter 15
The Ambiguities of Preservation: Bodhgayā, UNESCO,
and the Making of a World Heritage Site 235
Jacob Kinnard
Conclusion
The Space of Interpretation: A Hermeneutical Rereading 251
Pierre Bühler
Bibliography 259
List of Contributors 279
Index 283