Between Rocks and 'High Places': On Religious Architecture in the Iron Age Southern Levant

Halbertsma, Diederik JH ORCID: 0000-0001-8745-1194 and Routledge, Bruce ORCID: 0000-0002-6926-3728 (2021) Between Rocks and 'High Places': On Religious Architecture in the Iron Age Southern Levant. RELIGIONS, 12 (9). p. 740.

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Abstract

<jats:p>In this paper we examine why common methodologies for determining ‘religious architecture’ do not account for the diverse and fluid ways in which religious behavior can be expressed. We focus on religious architecture from the Iron Age Southern Levant highlighting certain sites that ‘fall through the cracks’ of current taxonomies. We propose a different way of approaching evidence for religious practice in the archaeological record, viewing religion as one dimension of social action made visible along a spectrum of ritualization.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	religion, architecture, Iron Age, Southern Levant
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	08 Oct 2021 09:10
Last Modified:	15 Mar 2024 08:01
DOI:	10.3390/rel12090740
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3139709