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Religion : from place to placelessness

Yi-fu Tuan

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Religion : from place to placelessness / by Yi-Fu Tuan
Geography and religion
Landscape of anxiety and fear
Chinese cosmic space and places
European sacred space and places
A comparison with American Indian world-view
Similar, yet different
Apartness
Order
Wholeness and completion
Sacred state
Violence
Ironies of piety
God and morality
From amoral energy to power for good
Rise and fall of place specificity
Traders and pilgrims
New England pilgrims
Religious geography
or just human geography
The aesthetic sublime : vastness, place, and space
Space versus local place and custom
Unbounded vastness and placelessness
The aesthetic sublime : transiency and the eternal
The ethical sublime : Buddhism
The ethical sublime : Christianity
Falling standard
Religion and geography : fundamental questions
From architecture and ritual to storytelling
Community, self, and selflessness
Placelessness and ethereality
Religion of fear and privilege
True religion
Progress
The ultimate test
Place to placelessness : photographs and essays / by Martha A. Strawn
Temple of the soul
Roadside shrines
Sacred space
Thresholds and gateways
Myths and meditations
Place and placelessness
Iconography
San pra pum (house of spirit)
Trascendence
The self and the soul.

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Religion : from place to placelessness by Yi-fu Tuan. ISBN 9781930066946. Published by Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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