Place and orientation are important aspects of human experience.
Place evokes geography and culture and conjures up history and
myth. Place is not only a particular physical location but an idea,
a mental construction that captures and directs the human
relationship to the world.
The distinguished contributors to this volume invite us to
reflect on the significance of places, real and imagined, in the
religious traditions they study and on how places are known,
imagined, remembered, and struggled for. Whether looking at the
ways myth and ritual reinforce the Yoruba's bond to the land or at
Australian Aboriginal engagements with the origins of the created
world, exploring Hildegard of Bingen's experience of heaven or
myths of the underworld in contemporary American millennialism,
listening to oral narratives of divine politics and deserted places
of Rajasthan or investigating literal and literary images of the
Promised Land, these essays underscore that place is constructed in
the intersection of material conditions, political realities,
narrative, and ritual performance.
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