Sacred Settings: The Aesthetics of Psychedelic Sacred Spaces

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. Introduction 1
4. Urbanity and the Sacred
5. Religious Encounters in Profane Spaces: Siegfried Kracauer’s Reading of Spatial Images and His Critique of Modern Sacred Architecture 17
6. Where the Magic Happens: Sacred Space within Western Esotericism 29
7. Sacred Gardens as Healing Spaces 55
8. Imagining Non-Hegemonic Spaces
9. Temporary and Imaginal Sacred Space in the Textual Transmission of Modern Ritual Magic: The Temple of Abramelin (15th–20th century) 77
10. Spatial Occultism: Placement and Spaces of Occult Ritual Practice Within Pop Culture 103
11. Performing and Designing Sacred Space
12. The Adaptive Reuse of Sacred Space and Ritual Customs at Eleusis: The Case of Panagia Mesosporitissa 127
13. Modernist Topologies: The Goetheanum In-Building 149
14. Sacred Settings: The Aesthetics of Psychedelic Sacred Spaces 169
15. Constructing and Building Sacred Spaces
16. Bruno Taut: Architect as Modern Spiritual Builder 189
17. The Ineffable – Unspeakable Space in Le Corbusier: Catharsis, Aesthetics, Atmosphere 205
18. The Architecture of the Church of the New Jerusalem: Correspondences and Debates on Sacred Space 217
19. About the authors 235