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Spaces of Faith: Incorporating Emotion and Spirituality in Geographic Studies

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  • Caitlin Cihak Finlayson

    (Department of Geography, Room 323 Bellamy Building, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2190, USA)

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Religious experience is highly personal and is often comprised of affectual encounters and emotional responses, both within personal space and through ordained sacred spaces. Expanding on recent geographical research, with the aid of semistructured interviews, this paper explores how personal affect and emotion are experienced by members from two houses of worship. The responses highlight the transformative nature of sacred space and its unique capacity to elicit emotional experiences from participants. Further, this study demonstrates that there is a commonality to spiritual experiences, such as a feeling of peace or a sense of being ‘home’, that cuts across denominational lines, and that these experiences are often spatially grounded.

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  • Caitlin Cihak Finlayson, 2012. "Spaces of Faith: Incorporating Emotion and Spirituality in Geographic Studies," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 44(7), pages 1763-1778, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:44:y:2012:i:7:p:1763-1778
    DOI: 10.1068/a44580
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    1. Moriel Ram & Meirav Aharon Gutman, 2017. "Strongholding the Synagogue to Stronghold the City: Urban-Religious Configurations in an Israeli Mixed-City," Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, Royal Dutch Geographical Society KNAG, vol. 108(5), pages 641-655, October.

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