Embodied Sacred Orientation: A Comparative Spatial Theology of Ritual Directionality in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Architecture
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Arş. Gör. Sertan BAKAR Kafkas Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Ali MEHDİZADE Kafkas Üniversitesi, Türkiye
| Makale Türü | Özgün Makale (SSCI, AHCI, SCI, SCI-Exp dergilerinde yayınlanan tam makale) | ||
| Dergi Adı | RELIGIONS (Q1) | ||
| Dergi ISSN | 2077-1444 Dergi Bilgileri (2026) | ||
| Dergi Tarandığı Indeksler | AHCI | ||
| Makale Dili | İngilizce | Basım Tarihi | 07-2026 |
| Cilt / Sayı / Sayfa | 17 / 7 / 800– | DOI | 10.3390/rel17070800 |
| Makale Linki | https://www.mdpi.com/3964934 | ||
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| This article examines the orientation that emerges during worship in the Abrahamic religions through the interrelation of bodily experience and architectural space. Drawing jointly on Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of the “lived body” and Mircea Eliade’s theory of sacred space, the study discusses how the directionality of worship in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam produces distinct spatial theologies. Methodologically, the research is based on a hermeneutic reading of selected sacred texts, rabbinic and liturgical sources, and on a comparative analysis of synagogue, church, and mosque spaces according to the criteria of orientation, architectural focus, bodily posture, congregational alignment, light, axis, threshold, and ritual surface. The proposed tripartite schema distinguishes between the horizontal covenantal orientation toward Jerusalem in Judaism, the vertical/transcendent axis associated with the … |
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| sacred space; Abrahamic religions; spatial theology; lived body; ritual orientation; religious architecture |
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