CfP: Sacred Spaces in the Americas, RIAS
2022-01-03 Next issue: Sacred Spaces in the Americas—RIAS Vol. 17, Spring–Summer (1/2023) Edited by Lucie Kýrová and Nathaniel R. Racine “Human societies come and go on this earth and any prolonged occupation of a geographical region will produce shrines and sacred sites discerned by the occupying people, but there will always be a few sites at which the highest spirits dwell.” Vine Deloria, Jr., God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, 279. The connections between the spiritual and natural world and the temporality and permanence of sacred places, as articulated by Vine Deloria, Jr., have found constant expression throughout the colonial history of the Americas. As European settlement advanced, many sites sacred to the Indigenous peoples were abandoned, destroyed, forcibly transformed, or left in obscurity for their own protection, only to gain new meanings within the conquering or enslaved cultures taking root. Thus we see modern Mexico City built […]