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 i...

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.