1st Edition

Layered Landscapes Early Modern Religious Space Across Faiths and Cultures

Edited By Eric Nelson, Jonathan Wright Copyright 2017
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume explores the conceptualization and construction of sacred space in a wide variety of faith traditions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and the religions of Japan. It deploys the notion of "layered landscapes" in order to trace the accretions of praxis and belief, the tensions between old and new devotional patterns, and the imposition of new religious ideas and behaviors on... Read more
Introduction

[Eric Nelson and Jonathan Wright]



Section I: Shared and Contested Sacred Landscapes



1. Jerusalem in the Reinvention of the Catholic Tradition, 1500–1700



[Megan C. Armstrong]



2. Sacred Landscape in Early Modern Granada: Muslim Past and Christian Present



[A. Katie Harris]



3. Temple to Town Hall: Sacred and Secular in Prague’s Jewish Town



[Rachel L. Greenblatt]



Section II: Sacred Landscapes, Ritual and Devotion



4. Gods and Goddesses in the Ritual Landscape of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Kāñcipuram



[Ute Hüsken]



5. Ritual, Public Space and Indigenous Engagement in Colonial Cuzco



[Gabriela Ramos]



6. Layers of Memory and Devotion: Temples, Shrines and Pilgrimage in Early Modern Edo



[Barbara R. Ambros]



Section III: Sacred Landscapes and Transition



7. Transforming the Orthodox Landscape of Ottoman Istanbul During the Early Modern Period



[Hasan Çolak]



8. From Prince-Bishopric to City-State: Nationalizing the Church and Creating a Republic in Reformation Geneva



[William G. Naphy]



9. The Layered Theoscape of Philadelphia: The Quaker Experiment as a Religious Crucible



[Pink Dandelion]



Section IV: Sacred Landscapes and Power



10. Religion Royale in the Sacred Landscape of Paris: The Jesuit Church of Saint Louis and the Resacralization of Kingship in Early Bourbon France (1590–1650)



[Eric Nelson]



11. The Basilica of St. John Lateran and the Post-Tridentine Papacy: Refashioning the Sacred Landscape



[Ingrid D. Rowland]



12. Two Tales of One City: Herat Under the Early Modern Empires of the Timurids and Safavids



[Colin Mitchell]



Epilogue: Jamme Masji

Biography

Eric Nelson is Professor of History at Missouri State University.



Jonathan Wright is Honorary Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.