Religion, Space, and the Environment

ISBN-13: 9781412862943 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 500 str.

Sigurd Bergmann

Opis

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 sacralizing, and the practices of power and visions of the sacred, among other topics.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations
Foreword

Prelude
Alive in, with, and through Space

Home
1. Beheimatung: Making Oneself at Home with the Spirit—A Collage
2. The City as a Place of Remembrance: Against Urban Amnesia
3. Religion in the Built Environment: Aesth/Ethics, Ritual, and Memory in Lived Urban Space

Earth
4. Cities on the Stream of Gods: Wandering in Mayan Sacred Geography
5. Ecological Geomancy: Earth Energy and the Wisdom of Spatial Design
6. Space and Justice in Eco-Spirituality

Landscape
7. ."The Space Where I Am": Decolonizing, Resacralizing, and Transfiguring Landscapes through the Aesth/Ethical Lens
8. .Landscape, Power, Climate, and the Sacred: Preliminary Reflections about Religion in Sacred, Medieval Nordic Geographies
9. "It Can't Be Locked In": Decolonizing Processes in the Arts and Religion of Sapmi and Aboriginal Australia

Climate
10. "The Landscape Breathes Despair": Lived Religion in Dangerous Environmental Change
11. Sacred Geography: Religion in the Lived Space of Climatic Change
12. Invoking the Spirit amid Dangerous Environmental Change
13. Energy as Gift or Commodity? The Ambivalence of Growth, -Markets, and Technology in Climatic Change

Mobility
14. Mobility and the Spirit of Our Time
15. "Follow Me . . ." The Reversal of Traffic in Johannes Schreiter's Stained Glass World
16. Technology as Salvation?: Critical Perspectives from an Aesth/Ethics of the Spirit

Spirit
17. Theology in Its Spatial Turn: Space, Place, and Built Environments Challenging and Changing the Images of God
18. Trinitarian Cosmology in God's Liberating Movement: Exploring Some Signature Tunes in the Opera of Ecologic Salvation
19. Fetishism Revisited: In the Animistic Lens of Eco-Pneumatology

Postlude
20. In the Anteroom of Life: The Human as the Human's Fascination in Roy Andersson's Film You, the Living

Bibliography
Index

O autorze

Sigurd Bergmann is professor of religious studies (theology, ethics, and philosophy of religion) at the department of philosophy and religious studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, and initiator and former chair of the European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment. His publications include Creation Set Free, God in Context, In the Beginning is the Icon, The Ethics of Mobility, and Theology in Built Environments.