Unlocking Sacred Landscapes Religious and Insular Identities in Context

• Other Authors: Papantoniou, Giorgos (Editor), Vionis, Athanasios K. (Editor), Morris, Christine E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Religion & beliefs; multi-confessionalism; popular religion; sacred trees; snakes; insularity; connectivity; hierotopy; Cyprus; Late Bronze Age; ritual; commemoration; burials; mortuary practice; sacred space; Late Antiquity; economy; sacred topography; churches; landscape archaeology; Early Byzantine; historical archaeology; memorialisation; Island Archaeology; GIS; material culture; Ikaros/Failaka; Hellenistic East; Seleucids; late Middle Ages; pilgrimage; map of Cyprus; medieval cartography; history of navigation; maritime shrine; mixed shrines; maritime routes; midwives; Eileithyia; Minoan peak sanctuaries; Bronze Age medicine; gender studies; Sardinia; sacred landscapes; maritime identities; community identities; rural churches; historical contingency; Ottoman era; Cyclades islands; Aegean Sea; club house; Malta; Mediterranean; island societies; islandscapes; ritual and cult; visual and material culture
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This Special Issue is the third and final volume in a trilogy of collective peer-reviewed works of the Unlocking Sacred Landscapes research network. It encompasses various approaches both to ritual space and to artefacts relating to ritual practice and cults involving islandscapes (including landsca...