By: Kathryn Rountree (Editor), Christine Morris (Editor), Alan A. D. Peatfield (Editor)

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ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Archaeology of Spiritualties provides a fresh exploration of the interface between archaeology and religion/spirituality. Archaeological approaches to the study of religion have typically, and often unconsciously, drawn on western paradigms, especially Judaeo-Christian (mono)theistic frameworks and academic rationalisations. Archaeologists have rarely reflected on how these approaches have framed and constrained their choices of methodologies, research questions, hypotheses, definitions, interpretations and analyses, and have neglected an important dimension of religion: the human experience of the numinous - the power, presence or experience of the supernatural. ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ Within the religions of many of the world's peoples, sacred experiences - particularly in relation to sacred landscapes and beings connected with those landscapes - are often given greater emphasis, while doctrine and beliefs are relatively less important. Archaeology of Spiritualities asks how such experiences might be discerned in the archaeological record; how do we recognize and investigate 'other' forms of religious or spiritual experience in the remains of the past? ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ The volume opens up a space to explore critically and reflexively the encounter between archaeology and diverse cultural expressions of spirituality. It showcases experiential and experimental methodologies in this area of the discipline, an unconventional approach within the archaeology of religion. ThusÿArchaeology of Spiritualitiesÿoffers a unique, timely and innovative contribution, one that is alsoÿchallenging and stimulating. It is a great resource to archaeologists, historians, religious scholars, and others interested in cultural and religious heritage.

SECTION I: LIFE, DEATH AND ANCESTORS 1. The Spirituality of Prehistoric Societies: A View from the Irish Megaliths Muiris O'Sullivan 2. Fragmentary Ancestors? Medicine, Bodies and Personhood in a Koma Mound, Northern Ghana. Timothy Insoll, Benjamin W. Kankpeyeng, and Samuel N. Nkumbaan 3. Negotiating Archaeology/Spirituality: Pagan Engagements with the Prehistoric Past in Britain Jenny Blain and Robert J. Wallis SECTION II: RELATIONAL ONTOLOGIES AND ENGAGEMENTS WITH LANDSCAPE 4. Spirituality and the Material World in Post-Medieval Europe Vesa-Pekka Herva 5. Breath and Being: Contextualizing Object Persons at Paquime, Chihuahua, Mexico Christine S. VanPool and Todd L. VanPool 6. In Search of Cosmic Power: Contextualizing Spiritual Journeys between Cahokia and the St Francois Mountains John E. Kelly and James A. Brown SECTION III: PLAYING THE FIELD: ARCHAEOLOGY, ETHNOGRAPHY AND ORAL TRADITIONS 7. Accessing Past Cosmologies through Material Culture and the Landscape in the Philippines Victor Paz 8. From Holy Hiis to Sacred Stone: The Diverse and Dynamic Meanings of Estonian Holy Sites Tonno Jonuks 9. Magical Signs in Prehistory: Near Eastern Celestial Symbols in the Ancient Carpathian Basin Emilia Pasztor SECTION IV: EMBODIED SPIRITUALITIES: THE CASE OF THE MINOANS 10. 'Nature', the Minoans and Embodied Spiritualities Lucy Goodison 11. Dynamic Spirituality on Minoan Peak Sanctuaries Alan Peatfield and Christine Morris 12. Dusk at the Palace: Exploring Minoan Spiritualities Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw

ISBN: 9781461433538
ISBN-10: 1461433533
Series: One World Archaeology
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 293
Published: 24th May 2012
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.5
Weight (kg): 0.608