Abandoned Sacred Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Abandoned Sacred Places write by Lawrence Joffe. This book was released on 2019. Abandoned Sacred Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Roman temples to Buddhist shrines in the Chinese desert, these hallowed halls have been abandoned to nature. More than 200 outstanding images show what happens to sacred places when humanity retreats. What happens when the congregation moves away from its place of worship? Or when shifting borders or persecution mean that people can no longer reach their church, synagogue, or mosque? Through magnificent, sometimes haunting images, Abandoned Sacred Places explores more than 100 lost worlds, including ancient and modern temples, synagogues, churches, mosques, and stone circles. Organized geographically, this unforgettable volume wanders from Stonehenge in England and Carnac in France to crumbling inner-city churches and synagogues in present-day Detroit and Chicago, from Mayan pyramids in Mexico to Hindu temples lost in the Indian jungle.
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty
A Sacred Space Is Never Empty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Sacred Space Is Never Empty write by Victoria Smolkin. This book was released on 2019-10-29. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the Bolsheviks set out to build a new world in the wake of the Russian Revolution, they expected religion to die off. Soviet power used a variety of tools--from education to propaganda to terror—to turn its vision of a Communist world without religion into reality. Yet even with its monopoly on ideology and power, the Soviet Communist Party never succeeded in overcoming religion and creating an atheist society. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty presents the first history of Soviet atheism from the 1917 revolution to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews with those who were on the front lines of Communist ideological campaigns, Victoria Smolkin argues that to understand the Soviet experiment, we must make sense of Soviet atheism. Smolkin shows how atheism was reimagined as an alternative cosmology with its own set of positive beliefs, practices, and spiritual commitments. Through its engagements with religion, the Soviet leadership realized that removing religion from the "sacred spaces" of Soviet life was not enough. Then, in the final years of the Soviet experiment, Mikhail Gorbachev—in a stunning and unexpected reversal—abandoned atheism and reintroduced religion into Soviet public life. A Sacred Space Is Never Empty explores the meaning of atheism for religious life, for Communist ideology, and for Soviet politics.
Loci Sacri
Loci Sacri - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Loci Sacri write by Thomas Coomans. This book was released on 2012. Loci Sacri available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. This volume explores both the cultural developments that have shaped them and their varied multidimensional levels of significance.
Sacred Places
Sacred Places - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sacred Places write by Philip Carr-Gomm. This book was released on 2009-10-09. Sacred Places available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes sites from Africa, Middle East, Europe, The Americas, Oceania, and Asia.
Searching for Sacred Space
Searching for Sacred Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Searching for Sacred Space write by John Ander Runkle. This book was released on 2002. Searching for Sacred Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every Sunday we walk through those doors and enter a sacred space. It is familiar, maybe comforting--or maybe not. It might be downright uncomfortable and unwelcoming. What can we do about it? In twelve thoughtful and provocative essays, the writers ask important questions about the relationship between sacred spaces and the worship that takes place in them: -How do our buildings convey a vision of God's kingdom on earth? -How are our places of worship reflecting our beliefs? -In what visible, tangible forms are we proclaiming a faith in the living God? -How are our church buildings helping this church bring the Gospel into a new century?
