The spirit of a place: materiality, spatiality, and feeling in Afro-American religions
Sacrality is, above all, a category of emplacement.Jonathan Smith, 1987, p. 104We necessarily express ourselves by means of words, and we usually think in terms of space.Henri Bergson, 1889, p. 7 What if instead of asking “What do you believe in?,” we asked “Where do you believe?” And what if we su...
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Journal de la Société des américanistes
2018
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| Shrnutí: | Sacrality is, above all, a category of emplacement.Jonathan Smith, 1987, p. 104We necessarily express ourselves by means of words, and we usually think in terms of space.Henri Bergson, 1889, p. 7 What if instead of asking “What do you believe in?,” we asked “Where do you believe?” And what if we supposed that religious places do not in fact derive from belief, but that belief derives from place? This is the premise of the line of thought taken in this volume, in which each article explores h... |
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