Religion, Space, and the Environment

Sigurd Bergmann

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351493659
• Print ISBN:
  9781412852579
• Subtopic: Écologie

Religions often nurture important skills that help believers locate themselves in the world. Religious perceptions, practices, emotions, and beliefs are closely interwoven with the environments from which they emerge. Sigurd Bergmann's driving emphasis here is to explore religion not in relation to, but as a part of the spatiality and movement within the environment from which it arises and is nurtured.Religion, Space, and the Environment emerges from the author's experiences in different places and continents over the past decade. At the book's heart lie the questions of how space, place, and religion amalgamate and how lived space and lived religion influence each other.Bergmann explores how religion and the memory of our past impact our lives in urban spaces; how the sacred geographies in Mayan and northeast Asian lands compare to modern eco-spirituality; and how human images and practices of moving in, with, and through the land are interwoven with the processes of colonization and sacralising, and the practices of power and visions of the sacred, among other topics.

Index

Abend in Skåne (Rilke), 37–39

aboriginal art, 184–187, 248–250, 253, 257, 258, 261–266, 269

acceleration, 36–37, 333–335, 339–340, 344, 357

Adorno, Theodor W., 213–214, 215, 380, 408n7

aesth/ethics, 76–78, 94, 130, 171, 209–217, 304, 339, 362, 379–381, 398

aesthetical justice, 213–214, 215, 380–381

agriculture, water and, 291–293

Aigi/Tid (Labba), 248

alienation, 382

Alstahaug altarpiece, 237–238

Altner, Günter, 215

amnesia, 59, 69, 87–93

ancestors, 66–68, 121, 128, 150–154

Andersson, Benny, 432

Andersson, Roy, 429–441

Ando, Tadao, 380

animism, 412, 418–424

Anselm, 401

anthropocentric commodification, 229

apophaticism, 307, 363–364, 403–404

Appadurai, Arjun, 31, 58, 171, 246, 255

appropriation, 261–266

architecture, 25, 238–239, 382–384, 390. see also cathedrals

Aristotle, 336, 340

Arnaud, Noel, 181, 212

ars moriendi, 93, 359–360, 404

ars technica, 360

art

globalization and, 243–244, 255

landscape and, 184–187, 190, 196–199

religion in, 268–273

spiritual component of, 186–187

See also individual artists and works

Artistic License, 290

Artist’s Room in Arles, The, 263

Assmann, Aleida, 87

atmosphere

aesth/ethics and, 77–78, 212–213, 215

rituals and, 85, 87

Augustine, 42, 192, 200, 231–232, 235, 284, 309, 376,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• Prelude
• Home
• Earth
• Landscape
• Climate
• Mobility
• Spirit
• Postlude
• Bibliography
• Index