God, pilgrimage, and acknowledgement of place
The paper seeks to address three objections to pilgrimage practices - they are tied to superstitious beliefs (except where they are seen as simply an aid to the imagination), imply a crude experiential or emotional understanding of the nature of faith, and rest upon a primitive conception of divine...
Published in: | Religious studies |
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Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2007
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Religious studies
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pilgrimage
/ Relationship to God
/ Superstition
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion |
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Summary: | The paper seeks to address three objections to pilgrimage practices - they are tied to superstitious beliefs (except where they are seen as simply an aid to the imagination), imply a crude experiential or emotional understanding of the nature of faith, and rest upon a primitive conception of divine localizability. In responding to these objections, I argue that the religious significance of places is not reducible to their contribution to religious imagination, experience or understanding. In this sense, relationship to God is not just a matter of thought, but of location. |
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ISSN: | 0034-4125 |
Contains: | In: Religious studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412506008778 |