Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
8-2012
Abstract
The paper reviews the corpus of research that attempts to explain the process of religious conversion, and explores the ways in which geographers can add new perspectives to the discourse. It argues that religious conversion is a phenomenon that goes beyond the reorientation of individual belief, and is instead a process of change that involves the (re)definition of self and other. Five conceptual frames are proposed - (1) conversion of space; (2) spaces of conversion; (3) spaces of negotiation; (4) the (im)mobile convert; and (5) the (dis)embodied convert - which are used to help define the geographies of religious conversion.
Keywords
conversion of space, (dis)embodied convert;geographies of religion, (im)mobile convert, religious conversion, spaces of conversion, spaces of negotiation
Discipline
Human Geography | Religion
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Progress in Human Geography
Volume
36
Issue
4
First Page
440
Last Page
456
ISSN
0309-1325
Identifier
10.1177/0309132511427951
Publisher
SAGE Publications (UK and US)
Citation
WOODS, Orlando.(2012). The geographies of religious conversion. Progress in Human Geography, 36(4), 440-456.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2427
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132511427951