TY - BOOK AU - Tuan,Yi-fu AU - Strawn,Martha ED - Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago TI - Religion: from place to placelessness T2 - Center books on the international scene AV - BL51 .T83 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Chicago, Ill. PB - Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago KW - Religion KW - Religion and geography KW - Sacred space N1 - Includes bibliographical references; -- 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 ER -