Lindsey Renoll
Blog Topic: Landscapes of the Sacred I
“Yet our being so often estranged from place means that we tragically are able to occupy the space without actually ‘dwelling’ with it as place” (29, Lane). This quote really stuck out to me while reading Landscapes of the Sacred because it seemed like something that wasn’t only applicable to religion, but also to those who don’t believe in religion. I took this quote as saying that someone can physically be somewhere but not always be there spiritually or mentally. The obvious example when talking about religion is that I could go into a church but then not actually experience what the church has to offer because I don’t believe in the religion. In that case I’m physically on/in a religious ground, but I’m not actually experiencing what the church and religion has to offer. A non-religious example, I think, is that when people go through rough times, where something happened that was so drastic and negative that it affected them mentally for years to come. Those people sometimes are known to physically be there, but mentally they’re not. As in they are oblivious to their surroundings or just don’t care enough to try to interact with religion. For some reason those two examples seem to have a lot of connections in my mind.
Blog Topic: Landscapes of the Sacred I
“Yet our being so often estranged from place means that we tragically are able to occupy the space without actually ‘dwelling’ with it as place” (29, Lane). This quote really stuck out to me while reading Landscapes of the Sacred because it seemed like something that wasn’t only applicable to religion, but also to those who don’t believe in religion. I took this quote as saying that someone can physically be somewhere but not always be there spiritually or mentally. The obvious example when talking about religion is that I could go into a church but then not actually experience what the church has to offer because I don’t believe in the religion. In that case I’m physically on/in a religious ground, but I’m not actually experiencing what the church and religion has to offer. A non-religious example, I think, is that when people go through rough times, where something happened that was so drastic and negative that it affected them mentally for years to come. Those people sometimes are known to physically be there, but mentally they’re not. As in they are oblivious to their surroundings or just don’t care enough to try to interact with religion. For some reason those two examples seem to have a lot of connections in my mind.
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