The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space

List of Illustrations Contributors Table of Approaches and Themes Introduction: Thinking about Religious Space: An Introduction to Approaches Jeanne Halgren Kilde Part I. Theory and Method for Approaching Religious Spaces and Locations 1. Conceptualizing Space and Place: Genealogies of Change in the Study of Religion Juan E. Campo 2. Hermeneutics of Space: Sacred Space Michael J. Crosbie 3. Urbanism and Religious Space Paul-François Tremlett 4. Shared Space, Or Mixed? Robert M. Hayden 5. Decommissioning and Reuse of Liturgical Architectures: Historical Processes and Temporal Dimensions Andrea Longhi 6. The Impermanence of Religious Space: Three Approaches to Change in the American Religioscape Jeanne Halgren Kilde 7. Planetary Identities: Globalization, Climate Change and Meaning-Making Practices Whitney A. Bauman Part II. Religious Spaces and Buildings across the Globe A. Asia 8. Whose Place Is it? Layers of Community and Meaning in the Land of Shinto and Power Spots Caleb Carter 9. Religious Place/Space in Premodern China Wei-Cheng Lin 10. National Treasures vs. Alien Species: Religious Spaces, Raccoons, and National Identity in Contemporary Japan Barbara R. Ambros 11. Visualizing Himalayan Buddhist Sacred Sites in 3D/VR: Pedagogy and Partnership Lauren Leve and Bradley Erickson B. Middle East 12. Form and Function in the Ancient Synagogue: Evidence from Roman and Byzantine Palestine and the Diaspora Marilyn J. Chiat 13. A Little Bit of Evil: Masjid Kufa in Early Twelver Shi'ism Najam Haider 14. Mediated Spaces of Collective Ritual: Sacred Selfies at the Hajj Nadia Caidi and Mariam Karim 15. (In)visible Priorities: Epigraphic Power and Identity at a Jordanian State Mosque David Simonowitz C. Africa and the African Diaspora 16. Exploration of Religious Spaces in Western Africa: Combining Approaches to Understand Spaces Daniel Dei 17. Religious Spaces as Tourist Sites in Ghana Alice Matilda Nsiah 18. Sacred Space in 19th Century Cape Town: Mosque, City, Landscape and a Radical Empiricism of the Spatial Ozayr Saloojee 19. Mapping the Spiritual Baptist Universe: Black Atlantic Cosmography and the Spatiality of Spirit in Trinidad and Tobago Brendan Jamal Thornton D. Europe and the Mediterranean 20. The Spaces of Roman Religion and Christianity in Late Antiquity Béatrice Caseau Chevallier 21. Presence and Performance: Orthodox Spaces of the Eastern Roman Empire Amy Papalexandrou 22. Remnants of Israel: Jewish Spaces and Landscapes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Jessica Renee Streit and Barry L. Stiefel 23. The Religious Landscape and its Architecture in Contemporary Europe Esteban Fernández-Cobián E. The Americas 24. Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Religious Spaces in Mesoamerica Brent K.S. Woodfill 25. Protestant Architecture in Latin America Rodrigo Vidal Rojas 26. Roman Catholic Sacred Space Leonard Norman Primiano 27. Protestant Spaces in North America. David R. Bains 28. Eastern Orthodox Spaces in America Nicholas Denysenko 29. Diasporic Sacred Spaces: The Case of Boundary Making at an American Sufi Shrine Merin Shobhana Xavier 30. Women's Mosques: Spaces to Rethink Gender and Religious Authority Irum Shiekh Part III. Memorials, Shrines, and Cemeteries 31. Sites of Miracles and other Holy Places: The Santuario de Chimayó as Case Study Brett Hendrickson 32. Situating the Dead: Cemeteries as Material, Symbolic, and Relational Space Avril Madrell and Brenda Mathijssen 33. Fundament and Abyss: Public Religion at the Berlin Holocaust Memorial David Lê