Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories Across Cultures

David W. Kim is Associate Professor of Asian History at Kookmin University, Seoul, and a Visiting Fellow at the School of History, Australian National University, Canberra.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Traces of Places: Sacred Sites in Miniature on Minoan Gold Rings.- 3. Reimagining Sacrosanct Sites in the Graphic Art of Kōno Fumiyo.- 4. Archaeology of a Coral Sea Ceremonial Pathway Duncan Wright, Alo Tapim, and James Zaro.- 5. Art and Cultural Heritage of Mahabharata and Ramayana: A View through the Terracotta Temples of Bishnupur, West Bengal.- 6. Jiba: The Sacred Place of Tenrikyo?.- 7. Blurred Boundaries between Secular Memory and Sacred Space in Religious Tourism:  Example of Two New Religions, the Mormon and Unification Faiths.- 8. The Spiritual in the Mundane: The Poetry of the Shikoku O-Henro Pilgrimage.- 9.Competition and Contestation at a Hindu-Muslim Shrine: The Case of the Sant Laldas in Mewat, North India.- 10. Maitreya’s Boundless Gaze: The Religious Implications of Maitreya Megas-Statues.- 11. Contemporary Creations and Re-cognitions of Sacred Sites.- 12. Is Sacred Site Discovered? Or Created?: A Case Study of Daesoon Jinrihoe .- 13. Transformation of Admiral to the Sainthood and Sacred Stories of Chinese Sanctum Sanctorum from Malabar Coast.