The connections between landscape and religion are diverse. Their complexity arises not least from the fact that—as a construct of society and the individual—landscape, physical space synthesized as landscape, and religiousness have undergone intense changes in recent years as well as decades. Religion in landscape emerges in numerous forms. Today, the relationship is also linked to secularization and individualization. Landscape arises from diverse social understandings, individualized landscape experiences, and changes in the physical space interpreted as landscape. These changes refer not only to the consequences of climate change including mitigation and adaptation efforts, but also to the change in religious representations in physical space resulting from the loss of everyday religious manifestations (such as wayside crosses), the desecration or ‘touristification’ of churches, but also the erection of physical manifestations of a religion not identified with one’s own ‘cultural circle’.

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Landscape and Religion

  • Olaf Kühne

摘要

The connections between landscape and religion are diverse. Their complexity arises not least from the fact that—as a construct of society and the individual—landscape, physical space synthesized as landscape, and religiousness have undergone intense changes in recent years as well as decades. Religion in landscape emerges in numerous forms. Today, the relationship is also linked to secularization and individualization. Landscape arises from diverse social understandings, individualized landscape experiences, and changes in the physical space interpreted as landscape. These changes refer not only to the consequences of climate change including mitigation and adaptation efforts, but also to the change in religious representations in physical space resulting from the loss of everyday religious manifestations (such as wayside crosses), the desecration or ‘touristification’ of churches, but also the erection of physical manifestations of a religion not identified with one’s own ‘cultural circle’.