Ο χώρος ως τόπος άγιος : Μια ανθρωπολογική προσέγγιση
Part of : Δελτίον της Χριστιανικής Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας ; Vol.41, 2002, pages 199-204
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199-204
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Space as Locus sanctus : An anthropological approach
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The use of space, its humanization, is the result of a seriesof processes: knowledge, organization, institutionalizationand ownership. These shape the concept of space and thesymbolic relationship of the community with worldly andother-worldly powers, the sanctity of the place. This relationship provides answers to the two great questions of thecommunity's members, concerning integration into a wholeand the meaning of life.Places charged with sanctity are, at the level of the village,churches, chapels, shrines and holy springs; at the level ofthe province, monasteries, powerful (religious, spiritual,artistic, economic) loci of longue durée; at the internationallevel, places of pilgrimage. Pilgrimages to these places, thesojourn there and the return from a "geography of sanctity"are of considerable economic, political and cultural importance. Places of pilgrimage, as important centres of art, aretreasuries of art works and create model monuments thatstructure symbolically and aesthetically the things of thisworld and of the world beyond.
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