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UNINA9910794383803321 |
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Barrie Thomas |
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Architecture of the world's major religions : an essay on themes, differences, and similarities / / Thomas Barrie |
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Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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Brill Research Perspectives |
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Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Architecture of the World's Major Religions -- An Essay on Themes, Differences, and Similarities -- Thomas Barrie -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Approaches, Reconsiderations, and Contextual Themes and Typologies -- 3 Judaism -- 4 Christianity -- 5 Islam -- 6 Hinduism -- 7 Taoism -- 8 Buddhism -- 9 Coda -- Acknowledgements -- Cited Works. |
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In Architecture of the World's Major Religions: An Essay on Themes, Differences, and Similarities , Thomas Barrie presents and explains religious architecture in ways that challenge predominant presumptions regarding its aesthetic, formal, spatial, and scenographic elements. Two positions frame its narrative: religious architecture is an amalgam of aesthetic, social, political, cultural, economic, and doctrinal elements; and these elements are materialized in often very different ways in the world's principal religions. Central to the work's theoretical approaches is the communicative and discursive agency of religious architecture, and the multisensory and ritual spaces it provides to create and deliver content. Subsequently, mythical and scriptural foundations, and symbols of ecclesiastical and political power are of equal interest to formal organizations of thresholds, paths, courts, and centers, and celestial and geometric alignments. Moreover, it is equally concerned with the aesthetic, visual and material cultures and the transcendent realms they were designed to evoke, as it is with the kinesthetic, the dynamic and multisensory experience of place and the |
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tangible experiences of the body's interactions with architecture. |
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UNINA9910854298003321 |
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Steimer-Herbet Tara |
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Indonesian megaliths: a forgotten cultural heritage |
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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
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1 online resource (118 p.) : ill |
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Laboratoire d'archeologie prehistorique UNIGE |
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Anthropology |
Megalithic monuments |
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Indonesian Megaliths: A forgotten cultural heritage' highlights aspects of Indonesian culture which are currently misunderstood and sometimes threatened by destruction. Although they are relatively recent in origin, the Indonesian megaliths offer similarities to their counterparts in the Middle East and Arabia: they reflect the rise to prominence of local chiefs in a context of acculturation which prompted the need to build megalithic monuments to bury the dead, and to honour, commemorate and communicate with ancestors. In societies of oral tradition, these stones punctuate the landscape to transmit the memory of men and social structure from one generation to the next. Based on scientific documents (articles, archaeological reports) and field visits, this new exploration clarifies various elements of the Indonesian megaliths, including their function in the daily life of the tribes and the use of certain stones for musical purposes (lithophony). In Nias, Sumba and Toraya, the megalith tradition is still alive and ethno-anthropological studies of these three regions provide a unique chance to complement the archaeological perspectives on megalithic monuments abandoned for several centuries in the rest of the Archipelago. The book includes numerous photographs |
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documenting the monuments which were taken during the author's stay in Indonesia (2010-2013). |
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