TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kakalis,Christos
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Place Experience of the Sacred: Silence and the Pilgrimage Topography of Mount Athos 
SN  - 9789819962143
AV  - GF 
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Singapore
PB  - Springer Nature Singapore, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Religion
KW  - Phenomenology 
KW  - Culture
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Human Geography
KW  - Phenomenology
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Archaeology and Heritage
N1  - Chapter 1: Exploring the Sacred -- Chapter 2: Mountain, Cave and Hermitage -- Chapter 3: Footpaths -- Chapter 4: Monastery and the Cell -- Chapter 5: The Main Church: Silent Presences and Communal Rituals -- Chapter 6: Silence and Ritual of Communal Meals -- Chapter 7: The Cemetery and the Grave -- Chapter 8: Athonite Embodied Topography
N2  - This book explores the topography of Mount Athos, emphasizing the significance of silence and communal ritual in its understanding. Mount Athos, a mountainous peninsula in northern Greece, is a valuable case study of sacred topography, as it is one of the world’s largest monastic communities and an important pilgrimage destination. Its phenomenological examination highlights the importance of embodiment in the experience of religious places. Combining interdisciplinary insights from architectural theory, philosophy, theology and anthropology with archival and ethnographic materials, the book brings a fresh contribution to both Athonite studies and scholarship on sacred space. By focusing on the interrelation between silence and communal ritual, it offers an alternative to the traditional art historical, objectifying approaches. It reintroduces the phenomenological understanding of place, investigating also how this is expressed through a number of narratives, such as travel literature, maps and diaries
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6214-3
ER  -