dc.contributor.author |
Van Wyk, Tanya
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dc.date.accessioned |
2014-10-02T06:55:28Z |
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dc.date.available |
2014-10-02T06:55:28Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2014-09-04 |
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dc.description |
This article is a reworked
version of a paper
presented at the 4th annual
interdisciplinary ‘Space and
Place’ conference, Mansfield
College, Oxford, UK, 09–12
September 2013. |
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dc.description.abstract |
This article reflects on an ecclesiastical institution as a spatial panoptic structure which
domesticates representational space as a hierarchy of power devoid of a sensitivity for the
‘human Other’ (Autrui). The notion of heterotopia is promoted to deconstruct spatiality and
linearity (time) as theological binary concepts. Being church as heterotopia does not deny
the desire for the utopian dimension in religious thinking but holds on to utopian thinking
amidst adversity and diversity. Therefore the concept of heterotopia is used to describe
reconciliatory diversity, which is characteristic of an inclusive postmodern church which is
a space where unity is not threatened by diversity, where the one is not afraid of the Other. |
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dc.description.librarian |
am2014 |
en_US |
dc.description.uri |
http://www.hts.org.za |
en_US |
dc.identifier.citation |
Van Wyk, T., 2014, ‘Church as heterotopia’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 70(1), Art. #2684, 7 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/hts.v70i1.2684. |
en_US |
dc.identifier.issn |
0259-9422 (print) |
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dc.identifier.issn |
2072-8050 (online) |
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dc.identifier.other |
10.4102/hts.v70i1.2684 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2263/42183 |
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dc.language.iso |
en |
en_US |
dc.publisher |
AOSIS Open Journals |
en_US |
dc.rights |
© 2014. The Authors.
Licensee: AOSIS
OpenJournals. This work
is licensed under the
Creative Commons
Attribution License. |
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dc.subject |
Church |
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dc.subject |
Heterotopia |
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dc.subject |
Diversity |
en_US |
dc.subject |
Power |
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dc.subject |
Human Other (Autrui) |
en_US |
dc.subject |
Spatiality |
en_US |
dc.subject |
Linearity |
en_US |
dc.subject |
Utopian thinking |
en_US |
dc.title |
Church as heterotopia |
en_US |
dc.type |
Article |
en_US |