Being `Hefted': Reflections on Place, Stories and Contextual Bible Study

Abstract

This article explores issues surrounding people's (declining) attitudes and relationships to their `place'. A `place' is somewhere involving a shared history, narrative and, most crucially, embodied interaction. A `non-place' by contrast is bereft of such relationships. I propose that a key `place-making' activity for communities is Contextual Bible Study and the sharing of stories. An example drawn from a pilot study in the Devon rural village of Drewsteignton, serves to illustrate the method and to explore this hypothesis.

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