Sacred Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives within Contemporary Contexts

John Matthews

Mar 2009 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

About this ebook

The identification and positioning of sacred space within contemporary contexts has, to date, received scant attention. In reflecting upon a broad spectrum of conceptions of what constitutes sacred space, this collection of interdisciplinary essays presents a new perspective on an area that is developing into an important theological and philosophical concept.

About the author

Steve Brie is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool Hope University. He has published works on Poetry, Film, Television Drama, Theology, History and Popular Music. His research interests include: the poetry of Charles Bukowski; the novels of Jack Kerouac; British and American television drama and popular music.

Jenny Daggers is a Senior Lecturer in Theology & Religious Studies at Liverpool Hope University. She is author of The British Christian Women's Movement: a Rehabilitation of Eve (Ashgate, 2002) and co-editor of Sex, Gender and Religion: Josephine Butler Revisited (Peter Lang, 2006). Jenny has also published a number of articles on feminist theology and women's history.

David Torevell is Associate Professor in Theology and Religious Studies at Liverpool Hope University. He is the author of Losing the Sacred : Ritual, Modernity and Liturgical Reform (T&T Clark, 2000), Liturgy and the Beauty of the Unknown, Another Place (Ashgate, 2007) and joint editor with Clive Palmer of The Turn to Aesthetics: An Interdisciplinary Exchange in Applied and Philosophical Aesthetics (Liverpool Hope University Press, 2008). Among his research interests are contemplative theology and spirituality.