Where to find and how to locate places of encounter with Divine?

What is it about?

The paper explores how different models of space articulate the nature of religious experience. Analyses are focused primarily on Heidegger’s phenomenology. Throughout his work, three models of space are determined: an opened, an empty, and a topological space. According to these models, there are three types of sacred places, that is, places of encounter with Divine: 1. A sacred place defined by coordinates materialized in a sacred building or symbolized by a cultic procedure; 2. A negative place, a place of a negative form of encounter; 3. A place as a path-mark, defined by a transitive (wayfaring) involvement into a lived environment.

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Why is it important?

Different models of space articulate differently what a place means. I aim to apply three philosophical models of space to define a place of encounters with Divine. This philosophical approach has theological consequences, since it is not easy to locate these places of encounters.