Touching philosophy, sounding religion, placing education / / Steven Schroeder.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 136
• VerfasserIn: Schroeder, Steven, 1954-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi B. V,, [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series ; 136.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 pages)

This book redefines religious studies as a field in which a plurality of disciplines interact. A social science when understood as a body of knowledge, religion is also marked by discovery, appreciation, orientation, and application-an interplay of the arts and sciences. Teaching religious studies involves the question of the occupation of territories and disentangling occupation from violence.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD by David Belcastro -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ONE Carried Away -- 1. The Temptation of Space -- 2. Against the Hegemony of Vision -- 3. Separation -- 4. The Religious Function of Home -- 5. Every Map Is A Myth -- 6. A Masterpiece of Structural Tenacity -- 7. Spatialization of Place -- 8. Cultural Systems -- 9. Three Themes -- TWO The Necessity of Theory -- 1. Observation As Action -- 2. Objectivity -- 3. Cognitive Linguistics -- 4. Phenomenological Geography -- 5. Ecological Psychology -- 6. The Body Is An Act -- THREE The Displacement of Society -- 1. Home and Exile -- 2. The Power To See -- 3. A History of Powers -- 4. Perception -- 5. Getting Ourselves Together -- FOUR A Moral Dimension of Place -- 1. Loaded Symbols -- 2. Making An Impression -- 3. Aesthetics and Ethics -- 4. Tapestries Woven of Power -- FIVE The Body Politic -- 1. Constructing Coherence -- 2. Culture -- 3. Intelligence -- 4. Perception, Again -- 5. Play, Possibility, and Power -- SIX Perceiving God Perceiving -- 1. Perception, Finally -- 2. A Twisted Universe -- 3. Philosophical Correspondences -- 4. Education and Distance -- SEVEN A Laboratory for Civil Discourse -- 1. Experiment -- 2. City Speech -- 3. The Classroom As City -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX.