Religious Representation in Place

Introduction; Mark K. George and Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS FOR APPROACHING SPACE 1. How Children Develop an Understanding of Space; Remo Largo 2. Meaningless Cosmos?; Arnold O. Benz 3. Faith and the Map; Franco Farinelli 4. The Human Dwelling: A Philosophical Question around Places and Space; Carla Danani PART II: REPRESENTING SPACE IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL CONTEXTS 5. Analyzing Embodied Space in Ancient Israel's Tabernacle; Mark K. George 6. Sacred Spaces in the Book of Hosea: A Case-Study on the Intersection of Gender, Space, and the Sacred in Ancient Israel; Christl Maier 7. Mapping Our Last Places: Apocalyptic Space and Eschatological Imagery at Chartres; Katherine Rousseau 8. Invisible Spaces between Cosmology and Biography: An Approach to the Otherworld in Visual Media; Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati PART III : REPRESENTING SPACE IN CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS 9. Ornament and the Other: The Reproduction of Muslim–Christian Spaces in Andalusia and Beyond; S. Brent Plate10. Monika Glavac, 'Places of Ridicule: Spatial Differentiation of the European Caricature; S. Brent Plate 11. In Search of Orientation in Cinematic Spaces: The Motif of Journey in Fiction Film; Marie-Therese Mäder 12. Clothing as a Meaningful Marker of Space; Anna-Katharina Höpflinger 13. Multiple Spaces in Modern Pilgrimages; Tommi Mendel 14. Spatiality and Spirituality: In Search of a Spiritual City; Carl Fingerhut 15. The Ambiguities of Preservation: Bodhgaya as a UNESCO World Heritage Site; Jacob Kinnard Conclusion Reflections on Engaging Religion and Spatial Studies; Pierre Bühler