Spiritual Archaeology

Author : Dragoş Gheorghiu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443834076
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeology Experiences Spirituality? written by Dragoş Gheorghiu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book’s aim is to go beyond the limits of the contemporary scientific paradigm of “material culture” by presenting some of the issues confronting archaeology, as it attempts to approach the spirituality of the past. It brings together archaeologists from Western and Eastern Europe, and the USA who, more or less obviously, have used their experientiality to approach the world view and mystic experience of ancient peoples. The book intends to present several arguments in support of an archaeology of spirituality through a series of seven case studies. What method should we use to approach spirituality? Are we still dependent on quantitative methods? Is phenomenology an appropriate instrument? Can experientiality approach a spiritual experience? Is the emic approach efficient enough to approach the spiritual side of a studied phenomenon? Are the analogous ethnographic models suitable instruments for this task? How much of the spirituality of the past is still accessible today? Could we build artificial contexts that would allow the recreation of the phenomenological condition analogous to the originals? Archaeology Experiences Spirituality? goes beyond the archaeological study of material culture, offering a fascinating lecture for the reader of the twenty-first century.

Author : Kathryn Rountree
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461433541
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Spiritualities written by Kathryn Rountree and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology of Spiritualties provides a fresh exploration of the interface between archaeology and religion/spirituality. Archaeological approaches to the study of religion have typically and often unconsciously, drawn on western paradigms, especially Judaeo-Christian (mono) theistic frameworks and academic rationalisations. Archaeologists have rarely reflected on how these approaches have framed and constrained their choices of methodologies, research questions, hypotheses, definitions, interpretations and analyses and have neglected an important dimension of religion: the human experience of the numinous - the power, presence or experience of the supernatural. Within the religions of many of the world’s peoples, sacred experiences – particularly in relation to sacred landscapes and beings connected with those landscapes – are often given greater emphasis, while doctrine and beliefs are relatively less important. Archaeology of Spiritualities asks how such experiences might be discerned in the archaeological record; how do we recognize and investigate ‘other’ forms of religious or spiritual experience in the remains of the past?. The volume opens up a space to explore critically and reflexively the encounter between archaeology and diverse cultural expressions of spirituality. It showcases experiential and experimental methodologies in this area of the discipline, an unconventional approach within the archaeology of religion. Thus Archaeology of Spiritualities offers a unique, timely and innovative contribution, one that is also challenging and stimulating. It is a great resource to archaeologists, historians, religious scholars and others interested in cultural and religious heritage.

Author : Michael A. Cremo
Publisher : Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Archeology written by Michael A. Cremo and published by Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. This book was released on 1998 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the centuries, researchers have found bones and artifacts proving that humans like us have existed for millions of years. Mainstream science, however, has supppressed these facts. Prejudices based on current scientific theory act as a knowledge filter, giving us a picture of prehistory that is largely incorrect.

Author : Roberta Gilchrist
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108496547
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Heritage written by Roberta Gilchrist and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forges innovative connections between monastic archaeology and heritage studies, revealing new perspectives on sacred heritage, identity, medieval healing, magic and memory. This title is available as Open Access.

Author : Raimund Karl
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152752101X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeological Sites as Space for Modern Spiritual Practice written by Raimund Karl and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological heritage can be disputed, especially where it is important to religions and their practitioners. While the destruction of archaeological sites in war – often due to religious fervour – is frequently making the headlines, apparently lesser disputes about local heritage sites go unreported. This book focuses on these lesser, but much more frequent, potential conflicts between archaeological heritage management and conservation on the one hand, and practitioners of religious beliefs who use archaeological heritage in their practice on the other. By exploring case studies from Austria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Norway, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Wales, this book examines the interaction between spiritual practice and monuments conservation. This book will be of great interest to heritage professionals, archaeologists, historians, conservationists and religious practitioners alike, through its exploration of various kinds of interactions between these different heritage communities and their interests in archaeology.

Author : J. David Lewis-Williams
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759104327
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book San Spirituality written by J. David Lewis-Williams and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the intersection between western culture and Africa, we find the San people of the Kalahari desert. Once called Bushmen, the San have survived many characterizations-from pre-human animals by the early European colonials, to aboriginal conservationists in perfect harmony with nature by recent New Age adherents. Neither caricature does justice to the complex world view of the San. Eminent anthropologists David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce present a instead balanced view of the spiritual life of this much-studied people, examining the interplay of their cosmology, myth, ritual, and art.

Author : Eric H. Cline
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691208573
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digging Deeper written by Eric H. Cline and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A brief, accessible primer explaining the basics of archaeology from "How do you know where to dig?" to "Do you get keep what you find?""--

Author : Martin Jezek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789088905186
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Touchstones written by Martin Jezek and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on 'hard' data obtained from chemical microanalyses of touchstones, this book offers original conclusions regarding the spiritual life of ancient populations

Author : Sussan Evermore
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781688044067
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Archaeology written by Sussan Evermore and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual Archaeology is a way of exploring the unseen past through a psychic connection. Sussan is the conduit who connects to Osiris, creator God of Egypt and Atlantis.The original temple of Osiris the Osireion is located in Abydos Egypt. Without explanation, an image is incised on a marble column with three circular images known collectively as the Flower of Life. Osiris speaks through the host of the secrets of the design and the connection to Atlantis.Also we unravel a mystery in a small hilltop town in Italy where the name of Merlini Merlin is recorded on the village register in the year 1150AD. He mentors a desperate knight Sir Galgano Guidotti who plunges a sword into sold rock. We discover what the Merlin Energy has meant to humanity throughout the ages.Situated a short distance from Rome is Hadrian's Villa - one of the wonders of the ancient world and within its boundaries we find a definitive link to Atlantis.The ancient city of Pompeii was destroyed by volcano in 79AD. In a garden we stumble across a seemingly inconspicuous fountain that will change recorded history and the discovery of Mexico. This unique find will also prove a connection between the Etruscans and the Mayan empire.We make contact with Voltumna, the supreme Etruscan Goddess to find the location of the holy grail of Italian archaeology, the Fanum Voltumnae. The location in central Italy is still one the most important finds for the spiritual center of the Etruscan world.

Author : C. RILEY. AUGE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781805397236
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FIELD MANUAL FOR THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF RITUAL, RELIGION, AND MAGIC. written by C. RILEY. AUGE and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: