Between Rocks and ‘High Places’: On Religious Architecture in the Iron Age Southern Levant
In this paper we examine why common methodologies for determining ‘religious architecture’ do not account for the diverse and fluid ways in which religious behavior can be expressed. We focus on religious architecture from the Iron Age Southern Levant highlighting certain sites that ‘fall through th...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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MDPI
2021
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Religions
Jahr: 2021, Band: 12, Heft: 9 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Iron Age
B Architecture B Religion B Southern Levant |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In this paper we examine why common methodologies for determining ‘religious architecture’ do not account for the diverse and fluid ways in which religious behavior can be expressed. We focus on religious architecture from the Iron Age Southern Levant highlighting certain sites that ‘fall through the cracks’ of current taxonomies. We propose a different way of approaching evidence for religious practice in the archaeological record, viewing religion as one dimension of social action made visible along a spectrum of ritualization. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel12090740 |