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Faculty Coordinatator, David Palumbo-Lu of Comparative Literature

2004-2005 Workshops

Sacred Geographies: Space, Place and Network in Asian Religions and Cultures

Web site: http://scbs.stanford.edu/Calendar/2004-05/sacred_geographies/home.html

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Description

The workshop on Sacred Geographies will explore insights derived from and issues raised by spatial and geographical perspectives in understanding Asian religions. Such perspectives offer a way of moving beyond, challenging, and supplementing more traditional approaches to religion that focus on the histories of texts, ideas, individuals, and communities. The workshop will take the spatial dimension as a fundamental medium of religious expression and consider how it is imagined and constructed, deployed and imposed, in sacred landscapes, iconography, and architecture; how it is used in text and ritual to communicate modes of sensibility and forms of knowledge; how it is employed to structure and 'discipline' social collectivities and individual subjects.