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Books in the Religion and Spatial Studies series

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  • - Exploring Meaningful Spaces at the Intersection of the Humanities and Sciences
     
    £47.99

    Religious Representation in Place brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Humanities and Sciences to broaden the understanding of how religious symbols and spatial studies interact. The essays consider the relevance of religion in the experience of space, a fundamental dimension of culture and human life.

  • - Exploring Meaningful Spaces at the Intersection of the Humanities and Sciences
     
    £47.99

    Religious Representation in Place brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Humanities and Sciences to broaden the understanding of how religious symbols and spatial studies interact. The essays consider the relevance of religion in the experience of space, a fundamental dimension of culture and human life.

  • - Desert as Borderland
    by Peter Anthony Mena
    £66.49

    In this book, Peter Anthony Mena looks closely at descriptions of space in ancient Christian hagiographies and considers how the desert relates to constructions of subjectivity. By reading three pivotal ancient hagiographies¿the Life of Antony, the Life of Paul the Hermit, and the Life of Mary of Egypt¿in conjunction with Gloria Anzaldúäs ideas about the US/Mexican borderlands/la frontera, Mena shows readers how descriptions of the desert in these texts are replete with spaces and inhabitants that render the desert a borderland or frontier space in Anzaldúan terms. As a borderland space, the desert functions as a device for the creation of an emerging identity in late antiquity¿the desert ascetic. Simultaneously, the space of the desert is created through the image of the saint. Literary critical, religious studies, and historical methodologies converge in this work in order to illuminate a heuristic tool for interpreting the desert in late antiquity and its importance for the development of desert asceticism. Anzaldúäs theories help guide a reading especially attuned to the important relationship between space and subjectivity.

  • - Constructing Spaces and Symbols in Ancient Rome
    by E. Smith
    £47.99

    The catacombs of Rome have captured imaginations for centuries. This innovative study takes a fresh look at these underground spaces, and considers how art, space, texts, and practices can tell us more about the catacombs and the people who dug and decorated them.

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