Making Places Sacred - Matt Tomlinson, Yujie Zhu

Although claims to sacredness are often linked to the power of a distant past, the work of making places sacred is creative, novel, renewable, and reversible. This Element highlights how sacred space is newly made. It is often associated with blood, death, and geographic anomalies, yet no single feature determines sacred associations. People make space sacred by connecting with ]'extrahuman' figures – the ancestors, spirits, and gods that people attempt to interact with in every society. These connections... Zobrazit více