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1st [edition]. |
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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction: Investigating archaeological approaches to the study of religious practices and beliefs; Part I: Sacred Nature; Chapter 2: Animal burials and their cults in Margiana; Chapter 3: Identifying sacrifice in Bronze Age Near Eastern iconography; Chapter 4: Cult and the rise of desert pastoralism: a case study from the Negev; Chapter 5: Thoughts on material expressions of cultic practice. Standing stone monuments of the Early Bronze Age in the southern Levant |
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Chapter 6: Late Chalcolithic Mesopotamia: towards a definition of sacred space and its evolutionPart II: Housing the God; Chapter 7: A sanctuary, or so fair a house? In defense of an archaeology of cult at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe; Chapter 8: Where to worship? Religion in Iron II Israel and Judah; Chapter 9: Communal places of worship: ritual activities and ritualised ideology during the Early Bronze Age Jezirah; Chapter 10: Open spaces around the temples and their ritual use: archaeological evidence from the Bronze and Iron Age Levant |
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Chapter 11: Ritual circumambulations in the Syro-Mesopotamian cuneiform texts. An overviewChapter 12: A temple lifecycle: rituals of construction, restoration, and destruction of some ED Mesopotamian and Syrian sacred buildings; Part III: The Materialisation ofReligious Beliefs and Practices; Chapter 13: Ritual performance and religion in early Neolithic societies; Chapter 14: Casting the sacred: Chalcolithic metallurgy and ritual in the southern Levant; Chapter 15: How better understanding of ritual practices can help the comprehension of religious feelings |
| Summary |
Religion is a phenomenon that is inseparable from human society. It brings about a set of emotional, ideological and practical elements that are pervasive in the social fabric of any society and characterizable by a number of features. These include the establishment of intermediaries in the relationship between humans and the divine; the construction of ceremonial places for worshipping the gods and practicing ritual performances; and the creation ritual paraphernalia. Investigating the religious dimensions of ancient societies encounters problems in defining such elements, especially with re. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Middle East -- Religion.
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Middle East. |
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Religion. |
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Archaeology and religion -- Middle East.
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Archaeology and religion. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Middle East.
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Middle East -- Antiquities.
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Antiquities. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Laneri, Nicola, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Defining the sacred 1st [edition]. Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015 9781782976790 (DLC) 2015007683 |
| ISBN |
9781782976851 electronic book |
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178297685X electronic book |
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9781782978497 |
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1782978496 |
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9781782978503 |
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178297850X |
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9781782978510 |
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1782978518 |
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9781782976790 |
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