Religion
Subtitle: from place to placelessness
By: by Yi-Fu Tuan ; with photographs and essays by Martha A. Strawn.
Contributors: Strawn, Martha.
Series: Center books on the international scene
Publisher: Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781930066946
Subjects: Religion; Religion and geography; Sacred space
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Geography and religion; title: Landscape of anxiety and fear; title: Chinese cosmic space and places; title: European sacred space and places; title: A comparison with American Indian world-view; title: Similar, yet different; title: Apartness; title: Order; title: Wholeness and completion; title: Sacred state; title: Violence; title: Ironies of piety; title: God and morality; title: From amoral energy to power for good; title: Rise and fall of place specificity; title: Traders and pilgrims; title: Religious geography; or just human geography; title: The aesthetic sublime : vastness, place, and space; title: Space vs. local place and custom; title: Unbounded vastness and placelessness; title: The aesthetic sublime : transiency and the eternal; title: The ethical sublime : Buddhism; title: The ethical sublime : Christianity; title: Falling standard; title: Geography and religion : fundamental questions; title: From architectural and ritual to storytelling; title: Community, self, and selflessness; title: Placelessness and ethereality; title: Religion of fear and privilege; title: True religion; title: Progress; title: The ultimate test.