Sacred Spaces and Urban Networks

Yazarlar: Ayşe Belgin-Henry, Paolo Girardelli, Rachel Goshgarian,
Christina Maranci, Zeynep
Oğuz Kursar, Robert Ousterhout, A. Hilâl Uğurlu, Suzan Yalman, Zeynep
Yürekli
With its history that goes back millennia, Anatolia is studded with
sites from different eras that are deemed "sacred." The collected
essays in this volume present diachronic and synchronic studies of
Anatolian sacred sites from the medieval period onward that
situate them within various spatial, urban, and sociocultural
dynamics. Each article explores unique case studies that illustrate
the role of human agency in the creative process of transforming
awe-inspiring sites into sacred spaces. Collectively, the volume
reveals that the magnetic qualities of such destinations create a
web of sanctity, as well as a complicated matrix of economic,
political, and social relations. The scholarly contributions published
here emerged from the 11th International ANAMED Annual
symposium, entitled "Sacred Spaces + Urban Networks" and held
at Istanbul's Koç University Research Center for Anatolian
Civilizations (ANAMED) in December 2016 This symposium brought
together prominent scholars in the field and former fellows of the
research center, including the volume's editors. While our initial
goal was to explore different layers of sacredness in Anatolia,
ultimately, the volume sheds light on parallels among case studies
and presents the connectedness between these layers.