Madeline Hicks: Journal 13- Landscapes of the Sacred Post 2: (Pages 229-237)

 This chapter of the book is about how religious symbols and spirituality are related. The author goes on to explain how simple things can later lead to complex thoughts and ideas. This happens because of the way humans view the world around them. "A place is often declared sacred or a spirituality gradually takes shape because of the symbol-making process by which humans make sense of the world around them. This essay is an effort to explore that process, reflecting on how the study of spirituality as an academic discipline is necessarily interdisciplinary in its attentiveness to the lived experience of theological insight within a selected cultural context." (Lane, Page 229). As humans, we have an instinct to want to learn and know about things. If we are not able to learn or read about something, we draw our own conclusions about the world around us. This was needed by early humans for survival, but today we use this instinct at work or in school. An academic study or research project is an example of this. The author writes about in this chapter what he has learned from his previous studies and research on this subject.

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