Faith and Place: An Essay in Embodied Religious Epistemology by Mark R. Wynn (En

by Mark R. Wynn

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Faith and Place by Mark R. Wynn Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description This book considers how places come to acquire special religious significance, as sites for prayer or other kinds of devotional activity. It examines the ways in which sacred sites function, and the ways in which sites which have no explicitly religious import may come to bear a religious meaning. Publisher Description 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 otherwiseengaged 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 s

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 2009
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780199560387
• Condition: Fine

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