We are not going to begin our writing with the regular prompter-of-the-week here, this week. However, all and any of you wish to publish a FREE-FORM, optional blogpost related to Hildegard, to Bingen, to cosmic humanity, to ruins, monasteries, or gardens, or to any other question about, in, on, or at sacred spaces, you can …
Continue reading “Oct. 29-31. On Heaven, with Hildegard, Bingen, water, gardens, and cosmographies”
This week we discussed the critical importance that origin myths and material objects have in the composition, sustenance, and interpretation of sacred spaces. How does an act of divination encompass the space around it and makes it sacred? How does an object, like a tray, become more than a mere marginal ornament or a prop …
Continue reading “Oct. 22-24. Myth and Ritual, Cosmologies, and Evidence”
Write a reflection on the correspondences of the ‘promised land’ with the Tower of Babel. Focus on how translation and transference (as we discussed in class) help us understand the histories of Beer-Sheba and the journey from the wilderness to the sea as literary engagements. Please, post your reflection by Monday at 5pm. Happy Fall …
This week we seek to understand the importance of geopolitical negotiations in the constitution of sacred spaces. By Thursday we will have looked at two different, yet interrelated cases: one, the dedication, ruination, reconstitution, and recognition of the sacred spaces of the owl dunes in Rajasthan and, on the other, the geometric tales of the …
Continue reading “Oct. 1-3. Weaving Sacredness with Tales and Polygons”
