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...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Religious studies |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch/Druck Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2007
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Religious studies
Jahr: 2007, Band: 43, Heft: 2, Seiten: 145-163 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Wallfahrt
/ Gottesbeziehung
/ Aberglaube
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Enthält: | In: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412506008778 |