Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
2-2013
Abstract
This paper replies to Kong’s (2010) lament that geographers of religion have not sufficiently intervened in religious studies. It advocates ‘grounded theologies’ as a rubric by which to investigate contemporary geographies of religion in a secular age. Arguing that secularization can itself be conceived as a theological process, the paper critiques a religious/secular dichotomy and argues that individualized spiritualities presently prevalent are indicative of Taylor’s (2007) nova effect of proliferating grounded theologies. Case studies are drawn from social and cultural geographies of religious intersectionalities and from critical geopolitics.
Keywords
cultural geography, geopolitics, intersectionality, postcolonial, religion, secular, theology
Discipline
Geography | Religion
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Progress in Human Geography
Volume
38
Issue
2
First Page
201
Last Page
220
ISSN
0309-1325
Identifier
10.1177/0309132512475105
Publisher
SAGE Publications (UK and US)
Citation
TSE, Justin K. H..(2013). Grounded theologies: ‘Religion’ and the ‘secular’ in human geography. Progress in Human Geography, 38(2), 201-220.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3134
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132512475105