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| | Amazon.com: Encyclopedia of Sacred Places: Books: Norbert C. Brockman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09) |
 | | In traditions as old as the henges of Stone Age Britain and as new as Himmler's Nazi antishrine at Verden, in spots as inaccessible as the hermit caves dug into the high cliffs at Meteora and as crowded as downtown Bangkok, humans have sought ways to honor the sacred. |
 | | Readers will visit sacred rivers, mountains, and springs; altars where mysterious prehistoric rites and sacrifices were performed; sites of miracles; tombs of saints; shrines for holy relics; and memorials to victims of the Holocaust, the atom bomb, and the slave trade. |
 | | As with any reference work, the appendices are important, and the Encyclopeida of Sacred Places does a fine job of making these articles accessible by offering maps as well as a glossary, bibliography and index, and appendices organized by religious tradition, by country, and by inclusion on UNESCO's World Heritage List of Cultural Sites. |
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