Sacred Place Again
Abstract
In the last 20 years, sacred place has been much on the minds of scholars interested in late antiquity. Sacralized place was the catalyst for the development of early Christian architecture during the 4
th through 6th. Century, Access to and control of sacred place was an important marker of identity in late antiquity, for Christians, Jews and pagans. The Ritschl-Harnack paradigm, arguing that in its essence (Wesen) Christianity was a form of religiosity opposed to the sacralization of place, is little more than an anti historical screed, torn from the larger cloth of 16th century polemics. Most 20th century students of late antique art, archaeology, history and religion have ignored the paradigm, as is fitting – only German scholarship has kept it alive. But in the last decade of the 20th century, the paradigm was carried over into Anglophone scholarship, with unfortunate results.
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