Research on Space & Place: Religious Studies, Theology, Spirituality

Websites

• Earth Mysteries.
  
• Feng Shui
  • Feng Shui Ultimate Resource.
    
  • Authentic Feng Shui – Thomas Coxon
    • Feng Shui Resources
  • Feng Shui Institute
  • Feng Shui School of Excellence
  • Alan Stirling
• Mysteries Megasite – some sub-pages on holy sites and places
• Mysterious Places: Explore Sacred Sites and Ancient Civilizations.
  
• Sacred Geography Links.
  
• Sacred Sites: Places of Peace and Power (Martin Gray)
  • Links page – extensive links to sacred sites.
• Woodland Cemetery Thesis/Serpent Mound Native Burial Grounds (Michael Salisbury)

Bibliographies

• Sacred Places Bibliography
• Sacred Space: Resources

• Courses and Programs

  • Certificate in Science and Spirituality (Union Institute and University) – has a strong component of place studies.
  • Ecospiritual Literature (Leslie van Gelder)
  • Foundations of Christian Spirituality (Douglas Burton-Christie) – course focuses on place and spirituality.

  General Bibliography

  n.a. “Sacred Space, Holy Place, and Suchlike.” http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/A-C/biblst/DJACcurrres/Postmodern2/Sacred.html.

  Ackerman, Joy. “A Politics of Place: Reading the Signs at Walden Pond.” Michael Benton, Melissa Purdue, and G. Wesley Houp, eds. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 5:3 (Summer 2005) http://www.reconstruction.ws/053/ackerman.shtml.

  Anttonen, V. “Rethinking the sacred: The notions of “human body” and “territory” in conceptualizing religion.” T. A. Idinopulos and E. A. Yonan, Eds., The sacred and its scholars: Comparative religious methodologies for the study of primary religious data. Leiden: Brill, 1996: 36-64.

  Anttonen, V. “Space, body, and the notion of boundary: A category-theoretical approach to religion.” Temenos 41:2 (2005).

  Bello, Angela-Ales. “The Space of the Goddess. A Phenomenological Excavation in Archaic Sacrality.” International Review of Sociology 6:3 (1996): 429-436.

  Bergmann, Sigurd. “Space and Spirit: Towards a Theology of Inhabitation” in Bergmann, Sigurd (ed.). Architecture, Aesth/Ethics and Religion. Frankfurt am Main: IKO-Verlag für interkulturelle Kommunikation 2005: 45-103.

  Bergmann, Sigurd. “Nature, religion and worldview – global, aesthetical and spatial perspectives.” in Science and Religion. Vladimir: Vladimir State University 2003: 43-59.

  Bergmann, Sigurd. “Space and Justice in Eco-Spirituality.” in J. Rüpke/V. Makrides (eds.), Religionen im Konflikt: Vom Bürgerkrieg über Ökogewalt bis zur Gewalterinnerung im Ritual. Münster: Aschendorff 2004: 212-225.

  Bergmann, Sigurd. “Raum und Gerechtigkeit: Ethische Perspektiven eines großräumigen Umweltschutzes.” in D. Hahlweg, D.-P. Häder, S. Bergmann, O. Seewald, J. Bauer, O. Aßmann, A. Sperling, Großräumiger Umweltschutz (Schriftenreihe für Ökologie und Ethologie vol. 28), Wien: Facultas 2002: 35-58.

  Bergmann, Sigurd, “Place and Perspective” in God in Context – A Survey of Contextual Theology, Aldershot: Ashgate 2003.

  Bergmann, Sigurd, “Rum och rättvisa [Space and justice]” in Kirke og kultur 2/3 (2003): 273-278.

  Bergmann, Sigurd. “Kan kyrkor flyga? Arkitekturens liturgi i estetisk och teologisk belysning” in: S.Å. Selander (ed.), Liturgi och språk, Skellefteå: Artos/Norma 2003, 88-110. [Can Churches Fly? The Liturgy of Architecture in Aesthetical and Theological Perspectives, …in SÅS, Liturgy and Language].

  Bergmann, Sigurd. “Nature, Religion and Worldview – Global, Aesthetical and Spatial Perspectives.” (Russian text), in: E. Arinin (ed.), Science and Religion, Vladimir: Vladimir State University 2004, 43-59.

  Bergmann, Sigurd, ed. Architecture, Aesth/Ethics and Religion. Frankfurt am Main: IKO-Verlag für interkulturelle Kommunikation 2005, London:Transaction Publishers 2005, 230 pps.

  Bergmann, Sigurd. Creation Set Free: The Spirit as Liberator of Nature (Vol. 4 in the series “Sacra Doctrina: Christian Theology for a Postmodern Age”), Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge U.K.: Eerdmans 2005, (with a foreword by Jürgen Moltmann), especially chapter 5 on “Movement”, “Motion” and “The Ecology of the Holy Spirit as Transparency of Place”.

  Bergmann, Sigurd. “Theology in its Spatial Turn: Space, Place and Built Environments Challenging and Changing the Images of God ” Religion Compass 1 (2007): 1-27. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1749-8171.2007.00025.x.

  Bergmann, Sigurd, Thomas Hoff & Tore Sager, eds. Spaces of Mobility: Essays on the Planning, Ethics, Engineering and Religion of Human Motion. Equinox Books, 2008.

  Boer, Roland. “Sanctuary and Womb: Henri Lefebvre and the Production of Space.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2000papers/Boer.html.

  Bowman, Glenn. ” Nationalising the Sacred: Shrines and Shifting Identities in the Israeli-Occupied Territories” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Man). XXVIII:3. Sept. 1993. pp. 431-460.

  Bowman, Glenn. “Christian Pilgrimage: Structures of Devotion/Strictures of Obedience” in Biblical Interpretation: The Meanings of Scripture past and present (ed. John M.Court). London: T & T Clark International (Continuum). January 2004. pp. 24-43.

  Bowman, Glenn. “Mapping History’s Redemption: Eschatology and Topography in the Itinerarium Burdigalense” in Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, ed. Lee I. Levine. New York & Jerusalem: Continuum Press and Magness Press. 1998. pp. 163-187.

  Bowman, Glenn. “Contemporary Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land” in Anthony O’Mahoney, ed., The Christian Heritage in the Holy Land London: Scorpion. 1995. pp. 288-310.

  Bowman, Glenn. “Pilgrim Narratives of Jerusalem and the Holy Land: A Study in Ideological Distortion” in Alan Morinis, ed. Sacred Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage (Contributions to the Study of Anthropology). Foreword Victor Turner. London: Greenwood. 1992. 149-168.

  Bowman, Glenn. “Christian Ideology and the Image of a Holy Land: The Place of Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Various Christianities” in Contesting the Sacred: the Anthropology of Christian Pilgrimage (ed. Michael Sallnow and John Eade). London: Routledge. 1991. 98-121.

  Brenneman, Walter J. Jr. “The Circle and the Cross: Loric and Sacred Space in the Holy Wells of Ireland.” Seamon, David & Robert Mugerauer, Dwelling, Place, and Environment: Toward a Phenomenology of Person and World. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985: 137-158.

  Brenneman, W. L., Jr., and Brenneman, M. G. Crossing the Circle at the Holy Wells of Ireland. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995.

  Brereton, J.P. “Sacred space.” M. Eliade, Ed., The encyclopedia of religion. New York: Macmillan, 1987: 526-35.

  Brueggeman, Walter. The Land: Place as Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith, 2nd Edition. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977, 2002.

  Bruggeman, Walter. “‘Placed’ Between Promise and Command.” Vitek, William & Wes Jackson, eds. Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996: 124-131.

  Buettner, M. Survey article on the history and philosophy of the geography of religion in Germany. Religion 10:2 (1980): 86-119.

  Cameron, J. “Place Perspective, Buddhism and Environmentalism.” http://www.uws.edu.au/serg/Buddhismenv_jcameron.htm.

  Camp, Claudia. “Storied Space, or, Ben Sira “Tells” a Temple” http://www.gunnzone.org/Space/BenSira_Space.htm.

  Chamberlain, Paul G. “Topomystica: Investigation into the Concept of Mystic Place.” Journal of Cultural Geography 19:1 (2001): 97ff.

  Chidester, D. and Linenthal, E. T. Eds. American Sacred Space. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

  Chivallon, Christine. “Religion as space for the expression of Caribbean identity in the United Kingdom.” Environment and Planning D-Society & Space 19:4 (August 2001): 461-483.

  Cole, Juan. Sacred Space and Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi’ite Islam. Palgrave Press, 2002.

  Conyers, A. J. “Why the Chattahoochee sings: Notes towards a theory of “place”” Modern Age 43:2 (2001): 99-106.

  Deal, William E. “Simulating Pure Land Space: The Hyperreality of a Japanese Buddhist Paradise.” http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/rlgn/deal/aar2002/pure_land_space.htm.

  Deal, William E. “Discourses of Religious Space.” http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/rlgn/deal/aar2003/discourse-space.htm.

  Dozeman, Thomas B. ““Scriptural Maps” and the Journey from Kadesh through the Transjordan.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2002papers/dozeman.html.

  Eiesland, Nancy. A Particular Place: Urban Restructuring and Religious Ecology in a Southern Exurb. Rutgers University Press, 2000.

  Faure, Bernard. “Space and place in Chinese religious traditions.” In: History of religions 26:4 (1987): 337-356.

  Fillipi, Linda. “Place, Feminism, and Healing: An Ecology of Pastoral Counseling,” Journal of Pastoral Care (Fall 1991): 231-42.

  Flanagan, James W. “Constructions of Ancient Space.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/96papers/Constructs/flanagan/jfoutline.htm.

  Flanagan, James W. “Postmodern Perspectives on Premodern Space.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/canada/Canada.html.

  Flanagan, James W. “Ancient Perceptions of Space / Perceptions of Ancient Space.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/jwfpapers/CBA2000/CBA.html.

  Flanagan, James W. “The Trialectics of Biblical Studies.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2001papers/flanagan1.htm.

  Flanagan, James W. “Mapping the Biblical World: Perceptions of Space in Ancient Southwestern Asia.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/canada/Windsor/Windsor.htm.

  Forbes, Boyte K. “It is all sacred: Foothill Konkow perceptions of sacred places.” Pennsylvania Geographer 36:1 (1998): 5-29.

  Friedland, Roger & Richard D. Hecht. “Power of place: the Nebi Musa pilgrimage and the origins of Palestinian nationalism.” In: Persistence of Religions: Essays in Honor of Kees W. Bolle — Malibu : Undena, 1996: 337-359.

  Gunn, David. “Te Kooti in Canaan or, Inhabiting the Bible and Possessing the Land.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/96papers/Constructs/gunn/Gunn.htm.

  Gunn, David. “The Stuff of Biblical Story: Reading the Things of Judges in the Space of Two Millennia.” http://www.gunnzone.org/Space/Gunn_StoryStuff_2003.html.

  Gurevitch, Zali & Aran, Gideon. “Never in Place: Eliade and Judaic Sacred Space.” Archives de sciences sociales des religions 39:87 (July-September 1994): 135-152.

  Hamma, Robert M. Landscapes of the Soul: A Spirituality of Place. Ave Maria Press, 1999.

  Harris, Chris “Toward an Understanding of Home: Levinas and the New Testament.” Religious Education 90:3/4 (Summer/Fall 1995): 433-444.

  Harvey, David C. “Constructed Landscapes and Social Memory: Tales of St. Samson in Early Medieval Cornwall.” Environment and Planning D-Society & Space 20:2 (April 2002): 231-248.

  Holloway, Julian. “Make-Believe: Spiritual Practice, Embodiment, and Sacred Space.” Environment and Planning A 35:11 (November 2003): 1961 – 1974.

  Huie-Jolly, Mary. “Word Reconstructing Flesh: Portable Christianity and its Fragile Earth Connection.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2000papers/HuieJolly.html.

  Inge, John. A Christian Theology of Place. Ashgate Publishers, 2003.

  Ivakhiv, Adrian J. Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona. Indiana University Press, 2001. With Table of Contents and first chapter.

  Jung, L. Shannon, Charles H. Reynolds. “Autonomy as Justice: Spatiality and the Revelation of Otherness.” Journal of Religious Ethics 14:1 (1986): 161-178

  Kiong, Tong Chee and Lily Kong. “Religion and Modernity: Ritual Transformations and the Reconstruction of Space and Time.” Social and Cultural Geography. http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/staff/home/geokongl/doc/scgbrdg.doc.

  Knott, Kim. “Space” Revista de Estudos da Religião (REVER) 4:5 (2005): “Theoretical Issues in the Study of Religion” http://www.pucsp.br/rever/rv4_2005/p_knott.pdf.

  Knott, K. “The location of religion: A spatial analysis.” London and Oakville, CA: Equinox, 2005.

  Knott, K. “Spatial theory and method for the study of religion.” Temenos 41:2 (2005): 153-84.

  Kong, L. “Religion and technology: refiguring place, space, identity and community.” Area 33:4 (December 2001) 404-413.

  Kong, L. “Mapping “new” geographies of religion: politics and poetics in modernity.” Progress in Human Geography 25:2 (2001): 211-33.

  Koontz, Gayle Gerber. “Place with God: A Mennonite Perspective on the Sacred” Mennonite Life 55:2 (June 2000). http://www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/2000june/koontz_article.html.

  Kormina, Jeanne. “Oral Stories about a Village Sacred Place: The Social Dimension of Narrative Tradition.” http://www.anthrobase.com/Txt/K/Kormina_J_01.htm.

  Kort, Wesley A. “Sacred/Profane and an Adequate Theory of Human Place-Relations.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2001papers/kort.htm.

  Lane, B. Places of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality. New York: Paulist Press, 1988.

  Lane, Belden. “Giving Voice to Place: Three Models for Understanding American Sacred Space.” Religion and American Culture 11:1 (Winter 2001): 53ff.

  Lapin, Hayim. “Space and Regional History: The Problem of Roman Palestine.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2003papers/lapin.htm.

  Leviton, Richard. The Galaxy on Earth: A Traveler’s Guide to the Planet’s Visionary Geography. Hampton Roads, 2002.

  Lilburne, Geoffrey. A Sense of Place: A Christian Theology of the Land. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989.

  Long, Burke O. “Scenery of Eternity: William Foxwell Albright and Notions of “Holy Land”” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/96papers/Constructs/long/Blong.htm.

  Long, Burke O. “Picturing Biblical Pasts.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2003papers/long03.pdf.

  MacDonald, Fraser. “Towards a spatial theory of worship: some observations from Presbyterian Scotland.” Social & Cultural Geography 3:1 (2002): 61-80. http://www.geography.unimelb.edu.au/staff/worship.pdf.

  MacDonald, Mary N. Experiences of place. Cambridge, Mass.: Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, c2003.

  Maier, Christi M. “Daughter Zion as a Gendered Space in the Book of Isaiah.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2003papers/maier.pdf.

  Mazumdar, Shampa & Sanjoy Mazumdar. “‘Women’s Significant Spaces’: Religion, Space, and Community.” Journal of Environmental Psychology 19:2 (June 1999): 159-170.

  McKeever, Michael Colin. “Refiguring Space in the Lukan Passion Narrative.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2000papers/mckeever.htm.

  McNutt, Paula M. “Spatiality and Marginal Social Groups in Ancient Israel.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2001papers/mcnutt.htm.

  Meurant, R. The Aesthetics of the Sacred: A Harmonic Geometry of Consciousness and Philosophy of Sacred Architecture. Whangamat, New Zealand: The Institute of Traditional Studies, 1989; Opoutere Press.

  Millar, William R. “A Bakhtinian Reading of Narrative Space and Its Relationship to Social Space; Or, Finding the Lost Tribe of Levi and Why It Matters: A Study in Voice, Space, and Power.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2003papers/millar.pdf.

  Mitchell, W. J. T. “Holy Landscape: Israel, Palestine, and the American Wilderness.” in Mitchell, W. J. T. Landscape and Power, 2nd Edition. University of Chicago Press, 1994, 2002.

  Moltmann, Jurgen. “Shekinah: The Home of the Homeless God.” Rouner, L. S., ed. The longing for home. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996: 170-184.

  Mugerauer, Robert. “Mircea Eliade: Restoring the Possibilities of Place.” Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology 3:1: 10-12.

  Pahl, Jon. Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces: Putting God in Place. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press, 2003.

  Park, C. Sacred worlds: An introduction to geography and religion. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.

  Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria. “Images of Cities in Ancient Religions: Some Methodological Considerations.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2000papers/Daria.html.

  Pippin, Tina. “The Ideology of Apocalyptic Space.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2003papers/pippin.htm.

  Plantinga, Theodor. “Sacred Spaces”. http://www.redeemer.on.ca/%7Etplanti/m/MCA.HTM#.

  Rabinowitz, Dan. “Strife in Nazareth: struggles over the religious meaning of place.” In: Ethnography 2:1 (2001): 93-113.

  Ray, S. “The Asrama-Anthem: Tagore’s Passion for Santiniketan.” in Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa, ed. The Elemental Passion for Place in the Ontopoiesis of Life Passions of the Soul in the Imaginatio Creatrix. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.

  Ray, S. “Visva-Bharati Santiniketan: Outcome and Outgrowth of Tagore’s Creative Passion.” in Tymieniecka Anna-Teresa, ed. Passion for place. Book II, Between the vital spacing and the creative horizons of fulfilment. Dordrecht; Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1997.

  Russell, Randy. “Coming to a Spiritual Sense of Place: An Affirmation of the Places we Inhabit.” http://www.western.edu/headwtrs/reader/essays/russell_sermon.html.

  Sanborn, Laura Sue. “Sacred Places of the Southwest.” Places: A Forum of Environmental Design 7(1): 42-49.

  Scheper, G. L. “`Where is our Home?’ the Ambiguity of Biblical and Euro-American Imaging of Wilderness and Garden as Sacred Place.” in Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa, ed. The Elemental Passion for Place in the Ontopoiesis of Life Passions of the Soul in the Imaginatio Creatrix. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.

  Scott, Jamie and Paul Simpson-Housley. Sacred Places and Profane Spaces: Essays in the Geographics of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Greenwood Publishers, 1991.

  Sheldrake, Philip. “Human Identity and the Particularity of Place” Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 1.1 (2001): 43-64. http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/scs/1.1sheldrake.html.

  Sheldrake, Philip. Spaces for the Sacred: Place, Memory, and Identity. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

  Smith, Jonathan. To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

  Smith,, J.Z. Map is not territory: Studies in the history of religions. Leiden: Brill, 1978.

  Spicer, Beverly White. The Ka’bah: Rhythms of Culture, Faith and Physiology. Lanham MD: University Press of America. 2003.

  St. John, Donald. “Deep Geography: Nature and Place in The Sign of Jonas.” Merton Annual: Studies in Culture, Spirituality and Social Concerns 4 (1991): 39-58.

  Stark-Arola, Laura. “Christianity and the Wilderness: Syncretisms in Orthodox Karelian Magic as Culture-Specific Strategies. Studies in Folklore and Popular Religion 2 (1999): 93-120.

  Stevenson, Kalinda Rose. “The Land is Yours: Ezekiel’s Outrageous Land Claim.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2001papers/stevensonEzk.html.

  Sturges, Philemon & Gilles Laroche. Sacred Places. Putnam: 2000.

  Swan, J. A., ed., The Power of Place: Sacred Ground in Natural and Human Environments. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1991.

  Tarthang Tulku. Time, Space and Knowledge: A New Vision of Reality. Emeryville, Calif.: Dharma Pub., 1977.

  Turner, Victor. “The Center Out There: Pilgrim’s Goal.” History of Religions 12:3(1973): 191-230.

  Vitiello, Vincenzo, “Desert, Ethos, Abandonment: Towards a Topology of the Religious” in Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo, Religion. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996: 136-169.

  Wertheim, Margaret. “Place, Space, and Spirit.” http://www.museum.vic.gov.au/lectures/wertheim/images/Space040399x.pdf.

  Whitelam, Keith W. “Preliminary Notes on Recent Historiography: Centralization and the New Imperialism.” http://www.cwru.edu/affil/GAIR/papers/2003papers/whitelam.pdf.

  Williams, George Huntston. Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.

  Williams, R. H. “Religion, Community, and Place: Locating the Transcendent.” Religion & American Culture 12:2 (June 2002): 249-263.

  Wingerd, Mary Lethert. Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul. Cornell University Press, 2001.

  Zimmerman, Michael. “The Role of Spiritual Discipline in Learning to Dwell on the Earth.” Seamon, David & Robert Mugerauer, Dwelling, Place, and Environment: Toward a Phenomenology of Person and World. NY: Columbia University Press, 1985: 247-256.