A Place of Encounter with a Divine. Heidegger on the Spatiality of Religious Experience

0482310 - FLÚ 2018 RIV PL eng J - Journal Article
Nitsche, Martin
A Place of Encounter with a Divine. Heidegger on the Spatiality of Religious Experience.
Open Theology. Roč. 3, č. 1 (2017), s. 338-344. ISSN 2300-6579
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Phenomenology of religious experience * Sacred Place * Phenomenology of Space * Phenomenological Topology * Heidegger
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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The paper explores how different models of space articulate the nature of religious experience. Analyses are focused primarily to Heidegger’s phenomenology. Throughout his work, three models of space are determined: an opened, an empty, and a topological space. According to these models, three types of sacred places, i.e. places of encounter with Divine: 1. A sacred place defined by coordinates materialized in a sacred building or symbolized by a cultic procedure. 2. A negative place, a place of a negative form of encounter. 3. A place as a path-mark, defined by a transitive (wayfaring) involvement into a lived environment.
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