God, pilgrimage, and acknowledgement of place
Wynn, Mark
Date: 1 June 2007
Journal
Religious Studies
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Cambridge University Press
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Abstract
The paper seeks to address three objections to pilgrimage
practices – they are tied to superstitious beliefs (except where they are seen as simply an aid to the imagination), imply a crude experiential or emotional understanding of the nature of faith, and rest upon a primitive conception of divine localizability. In responding to ...
The paper seeks to address three objections to pilgrimage
practices – they are tied to superstitious beliefs (except where they are seen as simply an aid to the imagination), imply a crude experiential or emotional understanding of the nature of faith, and rest upon a primitive conception of divine localizability. In responding to these objections, I argue that the religious significance of places is not reducible to their contribution to religious imagination,
experience or understanding. In this sense, relationship to God is not just a matter of thought, but of location.
Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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