Publication Type
Book Review
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
9-2014
Abstract
Yi‐Fu Tuan's latest book is a defence of individualism aimed at a wide lay readership, “a book on education that could benefit children everywhere” (p. ix). It is also a fascinating illustration of the relevance of geographies of religion to ongoing interests in humanistic geography. Indeed, one of Tuan's central arguments is that “religious thinking both undergoes and completes humanist thinking” and is therefore not “a relic that humanism has to outgrow,” for that would be a “regrettable” narrowing of the “scope of inquiry” in humanistic geography that “offends the spirit of humanism” (p. 5). It is this latter interest in religion that I want to critically interrogate in this review, highlighting a trend that has been explicit throughout humanistic geography, but has tended to be ideologically sidelined by geographers for far too long.
Discipline
Human Geography | Religion
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Canadian Geographer / Géographe canadien
Volume
58
Issue
3
First Page
e55
Last Page
e56
ISSN
0008-3658
ISBN
978‐0983497813
Identifier
10.1111/cag.12116
Publisher
Wiley: 24 months
Citation
TSE, Justin K. H..(2014). Review: Humanist geography: An individual's search for meaning by Yi‐Fu Tuan. Canadian Geographer / Géographe canadien, 58(3), e55-e56.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3139
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12116