The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space

612 Pages·2022·45.638 MB·English

by  Jeanne Halgren Kilde (editor)

The Oxford Handbook of
R E L I G I O U S S PAC E

The Oxford Handbook of
RELIGIOUS
SPACE
Edited by
JEANNE HALGREN KILDE
Associate Editors
BARBARA R. AMBROS
DAVID BAINS
SUSAN L. GRAHAM
LEONARD NORMAN PRIMIANO
DAVID SIMONOWITZ
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ambros, Barbara, 1968- editor. | Bains, David, editor. |
Graham, Susan Lochrie, editor. | Primiano, Leonard Norman, editor. |
Simonowitz, David, editor.
Title: The Oxford handbook of religious space /
Edited by Jeanne Halgren Kilde,
associate editors, Barbara Ambros, David Bains, Susan L. Graham,
Leonard Norman Primiano, David Simonowitz.
Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022000261 (print) | LCCN 2022000262 (ebook) |
ISBN 9780190874988 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190875008 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Sacred space. | Religious facilities.
Classification: LCC BL580 .O94 2022 (print) | LCC BL580 (ebook) |
DDC 203/.5—dc23/eng20220311
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022000261
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022000262
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190874988.001.0001
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Printed by Integrated Books International, United States of America
In memory of our friend Leonard Norman Primiano (1957– 2021), inspiring colleague,
passionate scholar, acute observer of religious life

Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Contributors xix
Table of Approaches xxvii
Introduction: Thinking about Religious Space: An Introduction
to Approaches 1
Jeanne Halgren Kilde
PART I. THEORY AND METHOD FOR
APPROACHING RELIGIOUS SPACES
AND LOCATIONS
1. C onceptualizing Space and Place: Genealogies of Change in the
Study of Religion 25
Juan E. Campo
2. Th e Hermeneutics of 21st-C entury Sacred Space 44
Michael J. Crosbie
3. U rbanism and Religious Space 58
Paul-F rançois Tremlett
4. S hared Space, or Mixed? 71
Robert M. Hayden
5. D ecommissioning and Reuse of Liturgical Architectures:
Historical Processes and Temporal Dimensions 85
Andrea Longhi
6. Th e Impermanence of Religious Space: Three Models for
Approaching Change in the American Religioscape 100
Jeanne Halgren Kilde
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7. P lanetary Identities: Globalization, Climate Change, and
Meaning- Making Practices 115

Whitney A. Bauman
PART II. RELIGIOUS SPACES AND
BUILDINGS ACROSS THE GLOBE
Asia

8. W hose Place Is It? Layers of Community and Meaning in
the Land of Shinto and Power Spots 131
Caleb Carter

9. R eligious Place/S pace in Premodern China 147
Wei- Cheng Lin
10. N ational Treasures versus Alien Species: Religious Spaces,
Raccoons, and National Identity in Contemporary Japan 163
Barbara R. Ambros
11. V isualizing Himalayan Buddhist Sacred Sites in 3D/V R:
Pedagogy and Partnership 176
Lauren Leve and Bradley Erickson
Middle East

12. F orm and Function in the Ancient Synagogue: Evidence
from Roman and Byzantine Palestine and the Diaspora 195
Marilyn J. Chiat

13. A Little Bit of Evil: Masjid Kūfa in Early Twelver Shī‘ism 209
Najam Haider
14. M ediated Spaces of Collective Ritual: Sacred Selfies at the Hajj 227
Nadia Caidi and Mariam Karim

15. ( In)visible Priorities: Epigraphic Power and Identity at a
Jordanian State Mosque 244
David Simonowitz
Contents ix
Africa and the African Diaspora
16. E xploration of Religious Spaces in Western Africa:
Combining Approaches to Understand Spaces 263
Daniel Dei
17. R eligious Spaces as Tourist Sites in Ghana 276
Alice Matilda Nsiah
18. S acred Space in Nineteenth-C entury Cape Town: Mosque, City,
Landscape, and a Radical Empiricism of the Spatial 293
Ozayr Saloojee
19. M apping the Spiritual Baptist Universe: Black Atlantic Cosmography
and the Spatiality of Spirit in Trinidad and Tobago 308
Brendan Jamal Thornton
Europe and the Mediterranean
20. Spaces of Roman Religion and Christianity in Late Antiquity 327
Béatrice Chevallier Caseau
21. P resence and Performance: Orthodox Spaces of the Eastern
Roman Empire 344
Amy Papalexandrou
22. R emnants of Israel: Jewish Spaces and Landscapes in Medieval and
Early Modern Europe 359
Jessica Renee Streit and Barry L. Stiefel
23. Th e Religious Landscape and Its Architecture in Contemporary
Europe 376
Esteban Fernández-C obián
The Americas
24. Pre- Columbian and Indigenous Religious Spaces in Mesoamerica 393
Brent K. S. Woodfill
25. P rotestant Architecture in Latin America 407
Rodrigo Vidal Rojas