The Relocation of Transcendence: Using Schutz to Conceptualize the Nature Experiences of Secular People
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The Relocation of Transcendence : Using Schutz to Conceptualize the Nature Experiences of Secular People. / Thurfjell, David; Rubow, Cecilie; Remmel, Atko; Ohlsson, Henrik.
I: Nature and Culture, Bind 14, Nr. 2, 2019, s. 190-214.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - The Relocation of Transcendence
T2 - Using Schutz to Conceptualize the Nature Experiences of Secular People
AU - Thurfjell, David
AU - Rubow, Cecilie
AU - Remmel, Atko
AU - Ohlsson, Henrik
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Abstract: Denmark, Estonia, and Sweden are, if measured by certain socio- logical criteria, considered to be three of the world’s most secular countries. Nature—forests, pristine beaches, and the countryside—plays a specific role in the allegedly secular discourse of the mainstream populations of these nations. Not only is it almost without exception deemed as a positive asset worthy of protection, it is also thought of as holding certain existential qual- ities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this article suggests that Alfred Schutz’s conceptualization of transcendence—further developed by Thomas Luckmann—can be used to describe the existential experiences in nature of contemporary secular people. The article results in a suggestion for an operational definition of transcendence.Keywords: Estonia, nature, nature experience, Scandinavia, Alfred Schutz, secularization, transcendence
AB - Abstract: Denmark, Estonia, and Sweden are, if measured by certain socio- logical criteria, considered to be three of the world’s most secular countries. Nature—forests, pristine beaches, and the countryside—plays a specific role in the allegedly secular discourse of the mainstream populations of these nations. Not only is it almost without exception deemed as a positive asset worthy of protection, it is also thought of as holding certain existential qual- ities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this article suggests that Alfred Schutz’s conceptualization of transcendence—further developed by Thomas Luckmann—can be used to describe the existential experiences in nature of contemporary secular people. The article results in a suggestion for an operational definition of transcendence.Keywords: Estonia, nature, nature experience, Scandinavia, Alfred Schutz, secularization, transcendence
U2 - https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2019.140205
DO - https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2019.140205
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
SP - 190
EP - 214
JO - Nature and Culture
JF - Nature and Culture
SN - 1558-6073
IS - 2
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