"Sacred Place", part of the acclaimed Themes in Religious Studies series, explores the powerful role that place and space play in shaping religious experience, identity, and tradition. Drawing on insights from theology, anthropology, history, and philosophy, this interdisciplinary volume investigates how certain locations become recognised as sacred, and how this sacredness is experienced, constructed, and contested across different faiths.
From pilgrimage sites and temples to monasteries, landscapes, and urban shrines, the book examines the symbolic, ritual, and communal dimensions of holy places in Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, and Indigenous traditions.