Modernity and the Construction of Sacred Space.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: French, Aaron.
Other Authors: Waldner, Katharina.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2024.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:SpatioTemporality / RaumZeitlichkeit Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Urbanity and the Sacred
  • Religious Encounters in Profane Spaces: Siegfried Kracauer's Reading of Spatial Images and His Critique of Modern Sacred Architecture
  • Where the Magic Happens: Sacred Space within Western Esotericism
  • Sacred Gardens as Healing Spaces
  • Imagining Non-Hegemonic Spaces
  • Temporary and Imaginal Sacred Space in the Textual Transmission of Modern Ritual Magic: The Temple of Abramelin (15th-20th century)
  • Spatial Occultism: Placement and Spaces of Occult Ritual Practice Within Pop Culture
  • Performing and Designing Sacred Space
  • The Adaptive Reuse of Sacred Space and Ritual Customs at Eleusis: The Case of Panagia Mesosporitissa
  • Modernist Topologies: The Goetheanum In-Building
  • Sacred Settings: The Aesthetics of Psychedelic Sacred Spaces
  • Constructing and Building Sacred Spaces
  • Bruno Taut: Architect as Modern Spiritual Builder
  • The Ineffable - Unspeakable Space in Le Corbusier: Catharsis, Aesthetics, Atmosphere
  • The Architecture of the Church of the New Jerusalem: Correspondences and Debates on Sacred Space
  • About the authors.