Sacred space is a prominent feature of Old Testament theology and is recognizable through structures such as the tabernacle, temple, and other places where God chooses to uniquely reveal Himself. New Testament scholarship, however, has a less uniform consensus in the way sacred …
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Archaeologists and historians have sought to understand the architecture of the early church using methods common to their respective fields of inquiry. This has included an approach to architecture which classifies buildings according to type and style. Limitations of both meth…
Sacred space has become an important category in the study of religion since the mid-twentieth century, thanks largely to the work of Mircea Eliade. In the field of biblical studies, there is a growing awareness of the importance of sacred space for understanding ancient Israeli…
This thesis addresses a longstanding challenge in the history of the religious architecture of late antique Jerusalem, and it attempts to create new theoretical resources for approaching this challenge. Paradoxically, this interpretive problem has to do not with the meaning of a…
The objective of this dissertation is to explore the meanings, significance, and functions of sacred space developed in the Hebrew Bible. A wide range of categories, models, and geographical forms of biblical sacred space will be presented: the cosmos, Mt. Zion, the Land of Isra…
In this dissertation, I investigate a popular type of narrative literature called in Tamil talapurāṇam (literally “place-lore”), which describes the legends associated with Hindu shrines as well as the manner in which rituals at the temple must be conducted. Though such texts we…
With the collapse of the Visigothic kingdom, the judges of Catalonia and southern France worked to keep the region’s traditional judicial system operable. Drawing on records of judicial proceedings and church dedications from the ninth century to the end of the eleventh, this di…
Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiritual formation influenced by Welsh Unitarianism and his lifelong interest in spirituality were far more dynamic than has been previously appreciated. This dissertation examines how Wright’s spirituality caused him to interpret not only religious archite…
Theater artists have long practiced superstitions and rituals such as leaving a lightonstage to keep ghosts from taking up residence in the theater or not saying the name of the play Macbeth for fear of being cursed. The question we must ask is why? And what purpose do these rit…
This paper probes the history of the Temple Mount complex during the British Mandate for Palestine. Approaching this sacred space from three different perspectives--British, Arab, and Jewish--the paper examines how people and events surrounding the site contributed to the evolut…
My research examines the evolving nature of Jerusalem and its holy places in Late Antiquity, through the lenses of memory, history, and religion. The city was transformed in the fourth century into the Christian "Holy Land," and this dissertation examines how the imperially-driv…