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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154330503321

Autore

Kinnard Jacob N.

Titolo

Places in motion : the fluid identities of temples, images, and pilgrims / / Jacob N. Kinnard [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

ISBN

0-19-935969-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

203.5

Soggetti

Sacred space

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Jacob Kinnard offers an in-depth examination of the complex dynamics of religiously charged places. He argues that places are sacred because we make them sacred, and that they remain in perpetual motion, transforming themselves from moment to moment and generation to generation.