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Martyrs create space and time through the actions they take, the
fate they suffer, the stories they prompt, the cultural narratives
against which they take place and the retelling of their tales in
different places and contexts. The title "Desiring Martyrs" is
meant in two senses. First, it refers to protagonists and
antagonists of the martyrdom narratives who as literary characters
seek martyrs and the way they inscribe certain kinds of cultural
and social desire. Second, it describes the later celebration of
martyrs via narrative, martyrdom acts, monuments, inscriptions,
martyria, liturgical commemoration, pilgrimage, etc. Here there is
a cultural desire to tell or remember a particular kind of story
about the past that serves particular communal interests and goals.
By applying the spatial turn to these ancient texts the volume
seeks to advance a still nascent social geographical understanding
of emergent Christian and Jewish martyrdom. It explores how martyr
narratives engage pre-existing time-space configurations to result
in new appropriations of earlier traditions.
This volume works through spatio-temporal concepts to be found in
imperial practices and their representations in a wide range of
media. The individual cases investigated in the volume cover a
broad spectrum of historical periods from ancient times up to the
present. Well-known international scholars treat special cases of
the topic, using cutting-edge theory and approaches stemming from
historical, cartographic, religious, literary, media studies, as
well as ethnography.
This volume focuses on the connection between modern design and
architectural practices and the construction of "sacred spaces."
Not only language and ritual but space, place, and architecture
play a significant role in constructing "special" or "religious"
spaces. However, this concept of a constructed "sacred space"
remains undertheorized in religious studies and the history of art
and architecture in general. This volume therefore revisits the
question of a "modern sacred space" from an interdisciplinary
perspective, focusing on religion, space, and architecture during
the emergence of the modern period and up until contemporary times.
Revisiting the ways in which modern architects and artists have
endeavored to create sacred spaces and buildings for the modern
world will addresses the underlying questions of how religious
ideas—especially those related to esotericism and to alternative
religiosities—have transformed the way sacred spaces are
conceptualized today.
Fragen des KArpers und der KArperlichkeit finden zunehmend das
Interesse der kulturwissenschaftlichen Forschung; gerade dem
spAtantiken Christentum gilt in diesem Zusammenhang immer wieder
besondere Beachtung. Der Sammelband stellt in den Mittelpunkt das
Motiv des leidenden KArpers, der aufgefasst ist als kulturelles
Symbol und Kommunikationsmedium bei Integration und Abgrenzung des
Christentums in seinem Bezug auf die spAtantike Gesellschaft und
Geisteswelt. MAnchsaskese und Martyrium, Krankheit und Schmerz
bilden die wichtigsten Bezugspunkte der einzelnen BeitrAge.
Die Autorin untersucht eine Gruppe von Mythen und Festen der
antiken griechischen Religion, in denen die Motive des
Geschlechterrollentauschs und der Geschlechtsumwandlung eine
zentrale Rolle spielen. Die Anwendung aktueller
religionswissenschaftlicher Theorien und der Ergebnisse der Gender
Studies fuhrt zu einem neuen differenzierten Bild des gesamten
Komplexes im historischen Kontext der griechischen Polisreligion in
archaischer und klassischer Zeit.
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