Religion

Publication Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

4-2020

Abstract

Geographies of religion have expanded in size and scope over the past three decades. They have evolved from consideration of the areal distribution of religions around the world to more sustained engagements with how religious phenomena are imprinted on the landscape. Associated with this shift has been a focus on how space is (re)produced by different religious actors (and the workings of power therein), the experiences of religion in and through space, and how religious spaces intersect with the formation of communities and identities. More recently, geographies of religion have engaged with topical debates surrounding the secularization and purported postsecularization of Western societies, and with the emergence of new forms of spirituality in the contemporary world. Combined, these developments underscore the fact that geographies of religion do not exist in isolation, but in conversation with the academic and social worlds within which they are embedded.

Keywords

Belief, Christianity, Cultural turn, Faith, Islam, Modernization, Officially sacred, Postsecularization, Pluralism, Religion, Secularization, Space, Spirituality, Unofficially sacred.

Discipline

Human Geography | Religion

Research Areas

Humanities

Publication

International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

Volume

11

Editor

Audrey Kobayahi

First Page

397

Last Page

401

ISBN

9780081022955

Identifier

10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10215-X

Publisher

Elsevier

City or Country

Cham

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102295-5.10215-X

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