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The sacred place was, and still is, an intermediate zone created in the belief that it has the ability to co-join the religious aspirants to their gods. An essential means of understanding this sacred architecture is through the recognition of its role as an 'in-between' place. Establishing the contexts, approaches and understandings of architecture through the lens of the mediating roles often performed by sacred architecture, this book offers the reader an extraordinary insight into the forces behind these extraordinary buildings.

Written by a well-known expert in the field, the book draws on a unique range of cases, reflecting on these inspiring places, their continuing ontological significance and the lessons they can offer today. Fascinating reading for anyone interested in sacred architecture.

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• Illustration Credits(p. ix)
• Acknowledgments(p. xi)
• 1 Introduction(p. 1)
• 2 The Middle Ground of Interpretation: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and the Sensory Experience of Architecture(p. 14)
• 3 Practices of Connection: Applications of Transcendentalist and Buddhist Philosophies(p. 29)
• 4 Mediating Elements: Symbolism, Religion, and the In-Between(p. 39)
• 5 Symbolic Engagements: The Media of Architecture(p. 61)
• Carl Jung's House in Bollingen: Architecture as a Medium of Transformation(p. 64)
• 6 Earth and Sky: Place and Primordial Architecture(p. 80)
• Native American Earthworks, Burial Mounds, and Effigy Figures: Cosmological Orientations and Mediations(p. 91)
• 7 The Sacred Path and Place: Spatial Sequences and Symbolic Narratives(p. 103)
• Tongdo Zen Buddhist Monastery, Korea: The Path as a Mediator(p. 113)
• 8 Ordering the World: Means and Meanings of Proportion and Geometry(p. 132)
• Saint Benedict's Abbey, Vaals, Holland, by Dam Hans van der Laan: Designing a Middle Ground(p. 150)
• 9 Perfected Worlds: Cosmograms and Connections(p. 167)
• The Late Works of the Ottomon Architect Sinan: Multitudinous Contexts, Packed Agendas, and Diverse Interpretations(p. 178)
• 10 Conclusion(p. 212)
• 11 Closing Thoughts: Personal Experiences of Place(p. 227)
• Notes(p. 231)
• Bibliography(p. 258)
• Index(p. 264)

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Thomas Barrie is Professor of Architecture at North Carolina Stare University whose scholarship on the symbolism, ritual use, and cultural significance of architecture has taken him to sacred places around the world. He is an award-winning architecture and the author of Spiritual Path-Sacred Place: Myth, Ritual and Meaning in Architecture (Shambhala Publications, 1996).