The Place of Place within the Attachment-Religion Framework: A Commentary on the Circle of Place Spirituality
In our response to "the Circle of Place Spirituality" we note that, in revised form, the presented model could make a contribution to the attachment-religion framework. We contend that exploration of places may facilitate a sense of closeness to God. However, we raise conceptual concerns r...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2018
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Research in the social scientific study of religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 29, Pages: 175-185 |
| Further subjects: | B
Religious sociology
B Social sciences B Religionspsycholigie B Allgemein B Religionswissenschaften B Religion & Gesellschaft |
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| Summary: | In our response to "the Circle of Place Spirituality" we note that, in revised form, the presented model could make a contribution to the attachment-religion framework. We contend that exploration of places may facilitate a sense of closeness to God. However, we raise conceptual concerns regarding "attachment to place" and we reflect on the fuzzy boundary conditions of attachment relationships. Using late Wittgenstein’s idea of "family resemblances" and later prototype models of categorization, we emphasize that there are substantial dissimilarities between people’s relationships to physical places on the one hand and their relationships with interpersonal partners and anthropomorphized entities (such as God) on the other. The attachment construct generally applies to the latter, but not the former. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Research in the social scientific study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004382640_010 |