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Faith and Place

An Essay in Embodied Religious Epistemology

by Mark R. Wynn

  • Hardback
  • 288 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2 cm

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Faith and Place takes knowledge of place as a basis for thinking about the relationship between religious belief and our embodied life. Recent epistemology of religion has appealed to various secular analogues for religious belief - especially analogues drawn from sense perception and scientific theory construction. These approaches tend to overlook the close connection between religious belief and our moral, aesthetic and otherwise engaged relationship to the material world. By taking knowledge of place as a starting point for religious epistemology, Mark Wynn aims to throw into clearer focus the embodied, action-orienting, perception-structuring, and affect-infused character of religious understanding. This innovative study understands the religious significance of a site in terms of i. its capacity to stand for some encompassing truth about human life; ii. its conservation of historical meanings, where these meanings make a practical claim upon those located at the place at later times; and iii. its directing of the believer's attention to a sacred meaning, through enacted appropriation of the site.Wynn proposes that the notion of 'God' functions like the notion of a 'genius loci', where the relevant locus is the sum of material reality. He argues that knowledge of God consists in part in a storied and sensuous appreciation of the significance of particular places.
Faith and Place and Sacred And The Profane
Sacred And The ProfaneFaith and Place

  • Author

    Mark R. Wynn

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    May 2009

  • Weight

    504g

  • Page Count

    288

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199560387

  • ISBN-10

    0199560382

  • Eden Code

    1242442

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