Mark R. Wynn
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199560387
- eISBN:
- 9780191721175
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199560387.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter introduces the main themes of the book and explains its structure. It notes how the concerns of the book can be related to two other bodies of literature: first, the literature in ...
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This chapter introduces the main themes of the book and explains its structure. It notes how the concerns of the book can be related to two other bodies of literature: first, the literature in religious epistemology, which has sought to compare knowledge of God to ordinary perceptual or scientific kinds of knowledge; and second, the literature on divine omnipresence. By contrast with the first literature, this book takes knowledge of place as an analogue for knowledge of God, and by contrast with the second, it supposes that God's relationship to place is not simply uniform, or at any rate, it supposes that there is differentiation in the religious meaning of place.Less
This chapter introduces the main themes of the book and explains its structure. It notes how the concerns of the book can be related to two other bodies of literature: first, the literature in religious epistemology, which has sought to compare knowledge of God to ordinary perceptual or scientific kinds of knowledge; and second, the literature on divine omnipresence. By contrast with the first literature, this book takes knowledge of place as an analogue for knowledge of God, and by contrast with the second, it supposes that God's relationship to place is not simply uniform, or at any rate, it supposes that there is differentiation in the religious meaning of place.
Mark R. Wynn
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199560387
- eISBN:
- 9780191721175
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199560387.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter reviews some of the recent literature in philosophy of place. Drawing on authors such as Gaston Bachelard, Henri Lefebvre, Pierre Bourdieu, and David Seamon, the chapter deepens the ...
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This chapter reviews some of the recent literature in philosophy of place. Drawing on authors such as Gaston Bachelard, Henri Lefebvre, Pierre Bourdieu, and David Seamon, the chapter deepens the earlier discussion of the nature of knowledge of place, by considering further the affect-infused character of knowledge of place and its connection to salient perception of a material context, and by examining the rootedness of knowledge of place in habitual bodily responses.Less
This chapter reviews some of the recent literature in philosophy of place. Drawing on authors such as Gaston Bachelard, Henri Lefebvre, Pierre Bourdieu, and David Seamon, the chapter deepens the earlier discussion of the nature of knowledge of place, by considering further the affect-infused character of knowledge of place and its connection to salient perception of a material context, and by examining the rootedness of knowledge of place in habitual bodily responses.
Mark R. Wynn
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199560387
- eISBN:
- 9780191721175
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199560387.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter begins with a brief biographical essay on the experience of place, which is designed to show that the themes treated more theoretically in later parts of the book can be grounded in ...
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This chapter begins with a brief biographical essay on the experience of place, which is designed to show that the themes treated more theoretically in later parts of the book can be grounded in familiar kinds of experience. The chapter also makes a start on exploring the formal qualities of knowledge of place, paying particular attention to the connections between salient perception, affective response, and bodily movement. The chapter also gives a preliminary sketch of three models of the religiously important content of knowledge of place — appealing to the idea that some places are microcosmically significant (embody some wider truth about human experience), or religiously important on account of their past (which can make an ethical claim upon people who are present at the site at later times), or religiously significant because they enable an embodied encounter with, or reference to, God, by virtue of what is done at the site.Less
This chapter begins with a brief biographical essay on the experience of place, which is designed to show that the themes treated more theoretically in later parts of the book can be grounded in familiar kinds of experience. The chapter also makes a start on exploring the formal qualities of knowledge of place, paying particular attention to the connections between salient perception, affective response, and bodily movement. The chapter also gives a preliminary sketch of three models of the religiously important content of knowledge of place — appealing to the idea that some places are microcosmically significant (embody some wider truth about human experience), or religiously important on account of their past (which can make an ethical claim upon people who are present at the site at later times), or religiously significant because they enable an embodied encounter with, or reference to, God, by virtue of what is done at the site.
