Creation and Re-Creation: the Origins and Preservation of the Shinto Shrines At Ise, Japan, and the Abbey Church of St. Michael At Hildesheim, Germany
Estelle Alma Maré
Abstract In this article Ise Jingu, Japan, and the church of St Michael, Germany, are juxtaposed. At first glance they do not seem to have much in common, except that exist as a testimony intentions original builders who established their distinctive architectural traditions and, physically, both recent reconstructions. The reasons for reconstruction different because, whereas precincts renewed it were obedience sacred injunction at place where war never occurred, renewal Hildesheim its design is predominantly result circumstance vicissitudes devastation, plunder war.
Religion and Theology