Abstract Places of santification. The liturgical sacredness of the Genevan Reformed temples (16th-17th century)  This essay focuses on the Genevan Reformation in an attempt to better understand the Reformed view of the relationship between place and sacrality. Doctrinal sources and ar

Abstract Temple, Jerusalem, city of shelter. The geography of sacred space transformed into a religion without place. When we consider the history of the temple in Jerusalem, we realise that its holiness became a spatial template for other religious institutions, allowing them, too, t

Abstract Templum and temple. Clarifications on the notion of templum This essay explores the Roman concept of templum. The word has two different, religious, meanings. The first denotes a space which has been divided from earthly space by the words of an augur and becomes the context