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)

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132512475105

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