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Towards Jerusalem : = The Architecture of Pilgrimage.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Towards Jerusalem :/
其他題名:	The Architecture of Pilgrimage.
作者:	Merin, Gili.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (85 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-04A.
標題:	Design. -
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ISBN:	9798352643020

Towards Jerusalem : = The Architecture of Pilgrimage.
Merin, Gili.

Towards Jerusalem :The Architecture of Pilgrimage. - 1 online resource (85 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Open University (United Kingdom), 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

Suspended between heaven and earth, Jerusalem is not just a site-but an orientation. Occupying a place in the geographic subconscious of Western culture, its name is evoked in poetry and dedications of cities, its soil covers the floors of chapels, rocks collected from its ground are used as foundation stones for towns, and relics of those who lived and died there are enshrined in the world's most visited sites. Despite this undeniable influence, this thesis strays away from such symbolic toponymy or literal displacement of fragments, and opts instead to focus on the spatial translation of Jerusalem in order to appropriate its sanctity. It considers issues of ritual, representation, topography, and memory in order to explore how the idea of Jerusalem has articulated the human relationship with the sacred. Specifically, it focuses on a particular praxis that has mobilised the aura of the Holy City for millennia-pilgrimage. Studying this phenomenon reveals that, despite its temporal character, pilgrimage is a powerful vector that often destabilizes the civic, economic, and political conditions of the places that cross its path. This means that while pilgrims move with a clear sense of religious orientation, their mentality is often hijacked by institutions of power that wish to exploit their subjectivity for their own gain. The manipulation of spiritual will into spatial form results in the production of structures, landscapes, and representations that I refer to as the Architecture of Pilgrimage.Before exploring the themes and case studies of this thesis, it is important to state the obvious: pilgrimage did not begin in Jerusalem; it is a phenomenon that maintains continuity from antiquity until today.1 Anthropologist Simon Coleman argues that any attempt to define pilgrimage is futile, as the conditions that influence its character-namely systems of movement and modes of spirituality-are perpetually in a state of flux.2 As such, pilgrimage spans fields of scholarship in which the discussion is often not about pilgrimage but rather about the lens through which it is understood: themes such as ritual and faith, subjectivity and identity, historical geography and archaeology, and, in this thesis, the architecture and lanscape.3 Amongst the various attempts by theorists to define pilgrimage, there are several similarities and contradictions that are relevant for this discussion. The Oxford Dictionary provides a rather loose definition: pilgrimage is "a journey to a place of particular interest or significance," while another source claims, with somewhat more precision, that "pilgrimage implies a journey by a devotee in pursuance of a primarily religious objective."4 Anthropologist Matthew Dillon suggests that the pilgrim's goal is not to visit a place of interest nor to satisfy a religious objective; rather, what is at stake in pilgrimage is the very first act of detachment, of "paying a visit to a sacred site outside the boundaries of one's own physical environment."5 Indeed, as in any ritual, a crucial aspect of the pilgrim's journey is the disturbance caused to daily life: a break from ties of kinship and domestic labour.6 By disengaging from these structures (and replacing one ritual for another), the pilgrim enters a state of anti-structure, becoming a subject driven by a crystallised sense of purpose, intention, and orientation. This places the pilgrim as a stranger in his or her travels, true to the etymological origin of pilgrimage from the Latin peregrinus, or foreigner.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798352643020Subjects--Topical Terms:

518875
Design.
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542853
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