Overview
- Offers unique empirical studies of the relationship between religion and place
- Includes case studies drawn from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa
- Offers new theoretical insights into the relationships between religion and place
- Engages the themes of landscape, politics and piety from diverse perspectives
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- "Islamic" cities in the muslim world
- Alternative spiritualities
- Arab immigrants
- Christian Feminists in the UK
- Fashion, faith and the body
- Gendering of religious identities and contexts
- Geographies of religion
- Human geography
- Identity, resistance and belief
- Immigrant identites, citizenship and spaces of belief
- Intellectualization of religion
- Lived religion, public piety and religious embodiment
- Minority Muslims in Israel
- Places of retreat and enchantment
- Refugee and faith
- Religion and immigrant subjectivities
- Religion and spirituality
- Religious landscapes
- Religious transnationalism
- Veiling and discourses
- Xenophobia in South Africa
About this book
This unique collection highlights the importance of landscape, politics and piety to our understandings of religion and place. The geographies of religion have developed rapidly in the last couple of decades and this book provides both a conceptual framing of the key issues and debates involved, and rich illustrations through empirical case studies. The chapters span the discipline of human geography and cover contexts as diverse as veiling in Turkey, religious landscapes in rural Peru, and refugees and faith in South Africa. A number of prominent scholars and emerging researchers examine topical themes in each engaging chapter with significant foci being: religious transnationalism and religious landscapes; gendering of religious identities and contexts; fashion, faith and the body; identity, resistance and belief; immigrant identities, citizenship and spaces of belief; alternative spiritualities and places of retreat and enchantment. Together they make a series of important contributions that illuminate the central role of geography to the meaning and implications of lived religion, public piety and religious embodiment. As such, this collection will be of much interest to researchers and students working on topics relating to religion and place, including human geographers, sociologists, religious studies and religious education scholars.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Religion and Place
Book Subtitle: Landscape, Politics and Piety
Editors: Peter Hopkins, Lily Kong, Elizabeth Olson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4685-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4684-8Published: 13 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9203-6Published: 15 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4685-5Published: 14 September 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 222