Mary N. MacDonald is Professor of History of Religions, Le Moyne College. Michael Barkun is Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Mary Gerhart is Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Ann Grodzins Gold is Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Syracuse University. Deborah Bird Rose is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University. Nili Wazana is Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The meaning, activity and experience of place offer far more to the study of religions than has yet been realized. In their timely discussion of present, material locations, the fantasized places of heaven and the conspiratorial underworld, the sites of oral and textual traditions, and the places of dreaming and promise, this book's contributors indicate some of the varied directions we might take in exploring the physical, social and cultural dimensions of place and their intersection with the religious.

Mary N. MacDonald is Professor of History of Religions, Le Moyne College. Michael Barkun is Professor of Political Science in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Mary Gerhart is Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Ann Grodzins Gold is Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Syracuse University. Deborah Bird Rose is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, The Australian National University. Nili Wazana is Lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The meaning, activity and experience of place offer far more to the study of religions than has yet been realized. In their timely discussion of present, material locations, the fantasized places of heaven and the conspiratorial underworld, the sites of oral and textual traditions, and the places of dreaming and promise, this book's contributors indicate some of the varied directions we might take in exploring the physical, social and cultural dimensions of place and their intersection with the religious.