Sacred gardens and landscapes : ritual and agency ; [Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXVI, held at Dumbarton Oaks, May 10 - 12, 2002] / ed. by Michel Conan

• MitwirkendeR: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture; Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture 26 2002 Washington, DC
• HerausgeberIn: Conan, Michel 1939-
• Place / Publishing House: Washington, DC, 2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Classification: 21.74 - Landschaftsgestaltung. Gartenkunst; 11.99 - Theologie, Religionswissenschaft: Sonstiges
• Physical Description: 314 S.; zahlr. Ill., Kt.; 27 cm

Studies of rituals in sacred gardens and landscapes offer tantalizing insights into the significance of gardens and landscapes in the societies of India, ancient Greece, Pre-Columbian Mexico, medieval Japan, post-Renaissance Europe, and America. Sacred gardens and landscapes engaged their visitors into three specific modes of agency: as anterooms spurring encounters with the netherworld; as journeys through mystical lands; and as a means of establishing a sense of locality, metaphorically rooting the dweller's own identity in a well-defined part of the material world. Each section of this book is devoted to one of these forms of agency. Together the essays reveal a profound cultural significance of gardens previously overlooked by studies of garden styles.