Layered Landscapes

Eric Nelson is Professor of History at Missouri State University.Jonathan Wright is Honorary Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University.

• Introduction[Eric Nelson and Jonathan Wright]Section I: Shared and Contested Sacred Landscapes1. Jerusalem in the Reinvention of the Catholic Tradition, 1500–1700[Megan C. Armstrong]2. Sacred Landscape in Early Modern Granada: Muslim Past and Christian Present[A. Katie Harris]3. Temple to Town Hall: Sacred and Secular in Prague’s Jewish Town[Rachel L. Greenblatt]Section II: Sacred Landscapes, Ritual and Devotion4. Gods and Goddesses in the Ritual Landscape of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Kāñcipuram[Ute Hüsken]5. Ritual, Public Space and Indigenous Engagement in Colonial Cuzco[Gabriela Ramos]6. Layers of Memory and Devotion: Temples, Shrines and Pilgrimage in Early Modern Edo[Barbara R. Ambros]Section III: Sacred Landscapes and Transition7. Transforming the Orthodox Landscape of Ottoman Istanbul During the Early Modern Period[Hasan Çolak]8. From Prince-Bishopric to City-State: Nationalizing the Church and Creating a Republic in Reformation Geneva[William G. Naphy]9. The Layered Theoscape of Philadelphia: The Quaker Experiment as a Religious Crucible[Pink Dandelion]Section IV: Sacred Landscapes and Power10. Religion Royale in the Sacred Landscape of Paris: The Jesuit Church of Saint Louis and the Resacralization of Kingship in Early Bourbon France (1590–1650) [Eric Nelson]11. The Basilica of St. John Lateran and the Post-Tridentine Papacy: Refashioning the Sacred Landscape[Ingrid D. Rowland]12. Two Tales of One City: Herat Under the Early Modern Empires of the Timurids and Safavids[Colin Mitchell]Epilogue: Jamme Masjid Mosque and Layered Landscapes[Andrew Spicer]