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SUMMARY:“Atmospheres”: Sacred Spaces between Immanence and Transcenden
 ce The Potential of a Concept for the Study of Religions
DTSTART:20171026T070000Z
DTEND:20171028T160000Z
DTSTAMP:20260428T204535Z
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DESCRIPTION:It is well established in research on religious traditions tha
 t sacred architecture has the function to make available the transcendent 
 with immanent means (Witt­mann-Englert 2006\, 7\; Krech 2012\, 20–21). 
 Built places\, however\, do not do so ‘on their own’ but only through 
 atmospheres – this is the basic hypothesis of our workshop.\n\nAtmospher
 es\, in a preliminary definition\, are the realized semantic potential of 
 socio-spatial arrangements which includes the meaning\, agency\, and sensa
 tion of physical space and which enables and restricts communication and s
 ociality.\n\nThe connections between spatial semantics\, atmospheres\, and
  transcendence/immanence have not been studied systematically from a relig
 ious studies perspective. In neighbouring disciplines however\, the concep
 t of atmospheres has been discussed (e.g. Schmitz 1969\; Böhme 2013). In 
 addition\, the recent turns in the social studies and humanities (spatial\
 , somatic\, material turn) have addressed aspects of what constitutes atmo
 spheres. This is where the workshop takes off: In interdisciplinary discus
 sion\, we will debate how the concept of atmospheres might be useful for t
 he study of religions.\n\nFinally\, sacred spaces are “contact zones” 
 (Pratt 2008)\, places where representatives of different cultural and reli
 gious traditions meet – particularly in culturally and religiously plura
 l societies. It is not just the “spatial iconicity” (Engelbart/Krech 2
 016\, 199) of sacred architecture which permits interreligious encounter (
 see also Knott et al. 2016). The atmosphere of these places can – in the
  emic perspective – be “inviting” or “excluding.” The dynamics o
 f inter- and intra-religious contact\, therefore\, are decisively but usua
 lly implicitly influenced by atmospheres. To understand these processes be
 tter\, the workshop takes a step towards a theoretically precise and metho
 dically operational concept of atmospheres.\n\nWorkshop's programme (in Ge
 rman only)\n
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/events/atmospheres-sacred-spaces-between-i
 mmanence-and-tr/
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