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To Take Place (Paperback, New edition)
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To Take Place (Paperback, New edition)
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In this broad-ranging inquiry into ritual and its relation to
place, Jonathan Z. Smith prepares the way for a new approach to the
comparative study of religion.
Smith stresses the importance of place--in particular, constructed
ritual environments--to a proper understanding of the ways in which
"empty" actions become rituals. He structures his argument around
the territories of the Tjilpa aborigines in Australia and two sites
in Jerusalem--the temple envisioned by Ezekiel and the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre. The first of these locales--the focus of one of
the more important contemporary theories of religious
ritual--allows Smith to raise questions concerning the enterprise
of comparison. His close examination of Eliade's influential
interpretation of the Tjilpa tradition leads to a powerful critique
of the approach to religion, myth, and ritual that begins with
cosmology and the category of "The Sacred."
In substance and in method, "To Take Place" represents a
significant advance toward a theory of ritual. It is of great value
not only to historians of religion and students of ritual, but to
all, whether social scientists or humanists, who are concerned with
the nature of place.
"This book is extraordinarily stimulating in prompting one to think
about the ways in which space, or place, is perceived, marked, and
utilized religiously. . . . A provocative example of the
application of humanistic geography to our understanding of what
"takes place" in religion."--Dale Goldsmith," Interpretation
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