A Place of Encounter with a Divine: Heidegger on the Spatiality of Religious Experience

The paper explores how different models of space articulate the nature of religious experience. Analyses are focused primarily on Heidegger’s phenomenology. Throughout his work, three models of space are determined: an opened, an empty, and a topological space. According to these models, there are t...

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Published in:Open theology
Main Author: Nitsche, Martin 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2017
In: Open theology
Further subjects:B Heidegger
B Phenomenology of Space
B Phenomenological Topology
B Sacred Place
B Phenomenology of religious experience
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Summary:The paper explores how different models of space articulate the nature of religious experience. Analyses are focused primarily on Heidegger’s phenomenology. Throughout his work, three models of space are determined: an opened, an empty, and a topological space. According to these models, there are three types of sacred places, that is, places of encounter with Divine: 1. a sacred place defined by coordinates materialized in a sacred building or symbolized by a cultic procedure; 2. a negative place, a place of a negative form of encounter; 3. a place as a path-mark, defined by a transitive (wayfaring) involvement into a lived environment.
ISSN:2300-6579
Contains:Enthalten in: Open theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/opth-2017-0026