Asuman Lätzer-Lasar to Deliver Paper on Religious Ancient Place Making

On Tuesday, 9 July 2019, KFG post-doctoral fellow and steering group member Asuman Lätzer-Lasar will present a paper as part of the colloquia held at the Max Weber Centre. The paper considers the concept of "place making" in antiquity and combines insights from archaeology, urban planning, history and religious studies to explore the ways in which religious space was shaped. The choice of location of a sanctuary was mainly dependent on its sacred geomancy, recognized, for instance, throug..