The Relocation of Transcendence: Using Schutz to Conceptualize the Nature Experiences of Secular People

David Thurfjell; Cecilie Rubow; Atko Remmel; Henrik Ohlsson

doi:10.3167/nc.2019.140205

The Relocation of Transcendence: Using Schutz to Conceptualize the Nature Experiences of Secular People

David Thurfjell, Cecilie Rubow, Atko Remmel, Henrik Ohlsson

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Abstract

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

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Nature and Culture
Vol/bind	14
Udgave nummer	2
Sider (fra-til)	190-214
ISSN	1558-6073
DOI	https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2019.140205
Status	Udgivet - 1 jun. 2019

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