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Notions of the Sublime

A Case Study into Layers of Depth in Experiences of Nature

A re-experiencing of the wilderness ideal is taking place in the Netherlands. This is expressed in the attention that is being devoted to projects in which agricultural land is transformed into nature. One of these projects is central to this article: the island Tiengemeten. We aim to study the experiences of visitors to this project in order to gain insight into the extent to which there are layers of depth visible in these experiences. For a lot of respondents going into in nature in general and making a visit to an island such as Tiengemeten in particular are ways of escaping from their day-to-day existence. It is noticeable that the words and images that the visitors use to describe their experiences fit in mainly with the wilderness view of nature. The wilderness view of nature is connected with experiences of the sublime; so in this article we also ask the question as to what the shift to the wilderness view of nature means for the religious landscape of the Netherlands.

Auteur(s)

Peter Jansen, Jan van der Stoep, Jozef Keulartz, Henk Jochemsen

Publicatietype

Artikel

Uitgever

Peeters Online Publishers / Titus Brandsma Instituut

Plaats uitgifte

Nijmegen

Pagina (start)

345

Pagina (einde)

371

Trefwoorden

Nature, Spirituality, Communication, Empirical Qualitative Research, Tiengemeten

Taal

Engels

Gepubliceerd in

Studies in Spirituality

Gepubliceerd op datum

2017-12-22