Sacred Spaces and Urban Networks — Ayşe Belgin Henry

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 2 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

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