Touching Philosophy, Sounding Religion, Placing Education /

Touching Philosophy, Sounding Religion, Placing Education /

This book redefines religious studies as a field in which a plurality of disciplines interact. A social science when understood as a body of knowledge, religion is also marked by discovery, appreciation, orientation, and application-an interplay of the arts and sciences. Teaching religious studies i...

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Main Author: Schroeder, Steven (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2002.

Series: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
Value Inquiry Book Series ; 136.

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Religion > Study and teaching.
Religion > Philosophy.

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Call Number: BL41

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Table of Contents:
  • FOREWORD by David Belcastro
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ONE Carried Away
  • 1. The Temptation of Space
  • 2. Against the Hegemony of Vision
  • 3. Separation
  • 4. The Religious Function of Home
  • 5. Every Map Is A Myth
  • 6. A Masterpiece of Structural Tenacity
  • 7. Spatialization of Place
  • 8. Cultural Systems
  • 9. Three Themes
  • TWO The Necessity of Theory
  • 1. Observation As Action
  • 2. Objectivity
  • 3. Cognitive Linguistics
  • 4. Phenomenological Geography
  • 5. Ecological Psychology
  • 6. The Body Is An Act
  • THREE The Displacement of Society
  • 1. Home and Exile
  • 2. The Power To See
  • 3. A History of Powers
  • 4. Perception
  • 5. Getting Ourselves Together
  • FOUR A Moral Dimension of Place
  • 1. Loaded Symbols
  • 2. Making An Impression
  • 3. Aesthetics and Ethics
  • 4. Tapestries Woven of Power
  • FIVE The Body Politic
  • 1. Constructing Coherence
  • 2. Culture
  • 3. Intelligence
  • 4. Perception, Again
  • 5. Play, Possibility, and Power
  • SIX Perceiving God Perceiving
  • 1. Perception, Finally
  • 2. A Twisted Universe
  • 3. Philosophical Correspondences
  • 4. Education and Distance
  • SEVEN A Laboratory for Civil Discourse
  • 1. Experiment
  • 2. City Speech
  • 3. The Classroom As City
  • REFERENCES
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  • INDEX.