Spatial Dimension of Early Christian Identity: Jerusalem in Lukan Writings
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | While the traditional understanding of early Christian identity was focused on time and history, more recently, the attention has been paid to social relations. This made possible to shift the focus from ideas to communities which produced them in the process of social formation and mythmaking (Burton L. Mack). Nevertheless, the role of spatiality in these processes remained marginalized and overlooked, in spite of the influential book by Jonathan Z. Smith To Take Place (1978) concentrated on relations between ritual and place. The paper tries to follow Smith’s interest in religious topography in the case of Lukan writings. It deals with Jerusalem not only as a particular place in Lukan imagination, but also as a part of the complex religious landscape constructed by Luke in both his works. |
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