Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
6-2001
Abstract
This article reviews geographical research on religion in the 1990s, and highlights work from neighbouring disciplines where relevant. Contrary to views that the field is incoherent, I suggest that much of the literature pays attention to several key themes, particularly, the politics and poetics of religious place, identity and community. I illustrate the key issues, arguments and conceptualizations in these areas, and suggest various ways forward. These 'new' geographies emphasize different sites of religious practice beyond the 'officially sacred'; different sensuous sacred geographies; different religions in different historical and place-specific contexts; different geographical scales of analysis; different constitutions of population and their experience of and effect on religious place, identity and community; different dialectics (sociospatial, public-private, politics-poetics); and different moralities.
Keywords
community, identity, modernity, place, poetics, politics, religion
Discipline
Human Geography | Religion
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Progress in Human Geography
Volume
25
Issue
2
First Page
211
Last Page
233
ISSN
0309-1325
Identifier
10.1191/030913201678580485
Publisher
SAGE
Citation
Kong, Lily.(2001). Mapping 'New' Geographies of Religion: Politics and Poetics in Modernity. Progress in Human Geography, 25(2), 211-233.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1717
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Authors
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1191/030913201678580485