Faith and Place: An Essay in Embodied Religious Epistemology

Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK (2009)
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This book considers how places come to acquire special religious significance, as sites for prayer or other kinds of devotional activity. It examines the ways in which sacred sites function, and the ways in which sites which have no explicitly religious import may come to bear a religious meaning. One of the concerns of the book is to show how 'religious experience' is often not directly an experience of God, but rather an experience of some material context, or place, and the religious significance which attaches to that context. The book draws on the phenomenological literature on sacred space and the emerging literature in philosophy of place, to provide an account of how religious belief is connected integrally to our embodied relationship to the material world.

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Books received. [REVIEW]James A. Keller - 2010 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 67 (3):193-195.

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