This paper develops new ways of approaching representations to understand individuals' everyday experiences of religion, faith, and spirituality in the past. Drawing on non-representational theories' emphasis on practice and affect, it focuses on processes of making representations within religious, faithful, and spiritual practices. Contribuing to ongoing dialogues between art history and geography, it explores the material spaces such representations were made in and the spiritual spaces they created, arguing that this approach overcomes the difficulties faced by historical geographers trying to explore embodied and out of body experiences of religion, faith, and spirituality in the past. To demonstrate the potential of this approach, this paper focuses on miniature squares made by the Methodist and Pre-Raphaelite associate James Smetham between 1848 and the late 1870s. Approaching them as spaces that Smetham made and inhabited, it explores where and when he made them and how making and inhabiting them affected his body, mind, and spirit. By taking this approach, this paper simultaneously gains specific insights into Smetham's embodied experiences of religion, faith, and spirituality and out of body experiences of the spiritual realm. It also reveals his complicated relationship with the Wesleyan Church, particularly its impact on his mental health.

本文开发了处理表征的新方法，以了解个人过去对宗教、信仰和灵性的日常体验。借鉴非表征理论对实践和影响的强调，它侧重于在宗教、信仰和精神实践中进行表征的过程。有助于艺术史和地理之间正在进行的对话，它探索了这些表现形式所在的物质空间和它们所创造的精神空间，认为这种方法克服了历史地理学家试图探索宗教的具体和脱离身体体验所面临的困难，过去的信仰和灵性。为了证明这种方法的潜力，本文重点介绍了卫理公会和拉斐尔前派成员詹姆斯·斯梅森 (James Smetham) 在 1848 年至 1870 年代后期制作的微型正方形。将它们视为 Smetham 创造和居住的空间，它探索了他在何时何地创造它们，以及创造和居住它们如何影响他的身体、思想和精神。通过采用这种方法，本文同时获得了对 Smetham 的宗教、信仰和灵性的具体体验以及精神领域的灵魂出体体验的具体见解。它还揭示了他与卫斯理教会的复杂关系，特别是对他心理健康的影响。本文同时获得了对 Smetham 的宗教、信仰和灵性的具体体验以及精神领域的灵魂出体体验的具体见解。它还揭示了他与卫斯理教会的复杂关系，特别是对他心理健康的影响。本文同时获得了对 Smetham 的宗教、信仰和灵性的具体体验以及精神领域的灵魂出体体验的具体见解。它还揭示了他与卫斯理教会的复杂关系，特别是对他心理健康的影响。