Spaces of Faith

Incorporating Emotion and Spirituality in Geographic Studies

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ID4986984
AuthorsCaitlin Finlayson (0000-0002-2287-8821, Florida State University, corresponding author), Caitlin Cihak Finlayson (Florida State University)
Year2012
Volume44
Issue7
Pages1763-1778
Publication date2012-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/a44580
OpenAlexW2168994066
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited36

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

Aesthetics · Art · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Faith · Feeling · Grounded theory · Personal space · Political science · Qualitative research · Sociology · Spirituality · Transformative learning · Worship · Anthropology · Communication · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medicine · Psychology · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Social Psychology

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