Homeland and the Place of the World Jeff Malpas Summary Aiming to introduce the idea of homeland in a way that extends beyond the medieval or religious alone, this chapter explores homeland and the idea of homeland from a broadly philosophical perspective. The chapter considers some of the ways homeland has been conceptualised in the existing literature, including certain critiques frequently advanced against it. A central claim in the chapter is that homeland must be understood as a topological or topographic notion, and so as directly connected to place, topos, and that its significance derives from the fundamental role of place in human life and experience. In this respect, the chapter approaches the question of homeland, including its specific medieval and religious realisations, as part of the larger project of philosophical topology or topography. More specifically, but remaining within the frame of such a topology, the chapter also advances an account of homeland as standing in a close relation to what is at issue in and expressed through the religious. Religious homelands are homelands, but perhaps all homelands also carry some sense of the religious.