Naming the sacred : : religious toponymy in history, theology and politics / / Anna Mambelli, Valentina Marchetto (editors) ; foreword by Alon Goshen-Gottstein.

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Place / Publishing House:Göttingen, Germany : : V&R unipress,, [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Fscire Research and Papers ; Band 001
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contesting "sacred" places: the paradoxes of supersessionism and the possibilities of scholarly responsibility / Paul Morris
  • The burial of Adam as an archetypal case of sacred tradition / Nikolai Lipatov-Chicherin
  • Christian empire and pagan temples in the fourth century CE / Rita Lizzi Testa
  • Rome and the Questione Romana / Roberto Regoli
  • Imagination, memory and fantasy / Merav Mack
  • Destroying the past: monotheism, iconoclasm and the sacred / Silvia Ronchey
  • Gershom Scholem from Zion to Jerusalem / Saverio Campanini
  • Christian Zionism and Jerusalem holy places / Robert O. Smith
  • Non-traditional sacred sites : the need for protection / W. Cole Durham, Jr.
  • Developing and implementing innovative preventative mechanisms for the protection of religious heritage sites through soft law approaches / Peter Petkoff
  • Ubiquitous sacred places: the planetary interplay of their meaning and legal protection / Mario Ricca
  • A chronology of the UNESCO dispute on Jerusalem and its holy places / Alberto Melloni.