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Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930-

Religion : from place to placelessness / text by Yi-Fu Tuan ; photographs and essays by Martha A. Strawn - 1st ed - x, 165 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm - Center books on the international scene . - Center books on the international scene. .

Includes bibliographical references

-- Religion : from place to placelessness -- 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 -- 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 / by Yi-Fu Tuan / by Martha A. Strawn

LCCN: 2008044188

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Religion
Religion and geography
Sacred space

LC Class. No.: BL51 / .T83 2009