Lecture 6 Flashcards
What is place-making?
= home-making
–> becomes more relevant and dynamic in circumstances of change or disruption (ex. globalisation, migration, war, revolution, natural disasters)
What has religion got to do with place-making?
Religion as a principal stake for conflicts regarding space
Religion as a collective emancipatory program for organisations and grassroots
Religions encompasses a marker of exclusion and inclusion
Religion as a spiritual journey
these dimensions work simultaneously
Material Places
The acquisition of places of worship plays an important role in religious emancipation
symbolic significance of places of worship
Religion is contentious by definition
contentious (controversial)
ex.
- setting fire of churches
- violence
- also including act of settlement (or expulsion) of religious communities
Spatiality
Social acts that unfold with religious traditions
how religious traditions generate notions of place, home, and territory
Experimental and discursive bearings;
- movement
- re- territorialisation
- travel
- pilgrimage
( spatial categories)
Tweed (2006) Dwelling
Fundamental element in religious practice - boundary making / boundary crossing
Dwelling linked to movement and making boundaries, made up of; mapping, building, inhabiting
Mapping
refers to orientation and location of individuals within the cosmos (guiding and discipline) ex. words of Mekka
also refers to registration and order building by authorities (power) ex. republic based on islamic principles and power structures
Building
building homes / producing locality (ex. place of worship, bringing people together)
also in a legal / political sense;
- creating designated buildings for specific people or purpose
- ex. Mekka, monasteries only for either women or men
Inhabiting
people who inhabit create lived - worlds and live in these imagined geographies
Three additional observations
Mapping and building follow envision of ideal future, presence, and origin
Aesthetic, mapping, building are persuasive qualities in religious home-making and inhabiting
top down - process of order building
bottom up - process of building and inhabiting life-worlds
Top-down domestication of religion
is containment, legalisation, pacification, and order building on a national imaginary
place making is more intense within global cities
Tweed; Crossing and dwelling
spatial approach of religion
fundamental element in boundary making / boundary crossing / fixing and flow
boundary making / crossing
think in a way boundaries in religion and how some people are in it and some people are not
crossing : how some people transcend boundaries
fixing
making boundaries / order
flow
moving through these boundaries, movement
