(That was a convoluted sentence. Sorry.)

But so did Ferdinand de Saussure, I just discovered yesterday.

I had never heard of the concept of “thinness” in the religious context until the sermon mentioned in this post.

I wonder whether it might not be better to relate “thickness” in Geertz’s sense with thinness in the Celtic religious sense. Both involve, it seems to me, the issue of expanding a context.

(E.g., the context of a “thin place” is not just the surrounding “material world” but the spiritual world as well.)

*ponders*

Oh, and Dr. Downing’s book is an extremely helpful treatment of postmoderinsim and religion. Quality information and thinking. Hers is the real deal (as opposed to the Brian McLaren’s frustrating A New Kind of Christian trilogy by Brian McClaren).

That includes me commenting on my colleague Crystal Downing’s book on postmodernism. I offer no citation since my talk is only available in PowerPoint®. But I do have a review of her book.

I’m interested to see you identify “thin” with Celtic tradition. Geertz was American. Made me wonder whether Geertz was in turn influenced by Celtic views. Or whether it’s just that the sociologists of the internet are right: Everything is connected.