Holy Networks

Locating, Shaping, and Experiencing Palestinian Loca Sancta (1187-1852)

SNSF-Advanced Grant Research Project TMAG-1_216202, coordinated by Prof. Michele Bacci, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 2024-2029

The present project aims to provide a methodological reassessment of and a new interpretive frame to the materiality of Palestinian loca sancta, their interaction with the surrounding environment, their interconnectedness in the frame of topographic networks meant to be experienced through physical movement, and more generally, the construction of sanctity through and in things and its sensory apprehension.

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