Overview
- Examines how particular spaces become sites of multi-religious histories, encounters and engagements
- Explores the broader social and political consequences of particular interreligious spaces
- Responds to the spatial and material turn in religious studies and the social sciences
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Multi-Religious Cities
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Multi-Religious Places
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Multi-Religious Landscapes
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About this book
This edited collection explores forms of multi-religious cohabitation as well as the spatial arrangements that underpin and shape them through sixteen chapters that range across disciplines, historical periods, and global geographies. Focusing on interactions between different religious groups and traditions, the authors conceptualize three types of spatial arrangements and explore how they operate ad geographies of encounter; i.e., multi-religious places, multi-religious cities, and multi-religious landscapes. With perspectives from anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and geographers, the book demonstrates the multiple ways in which geographies of interreligious encounters and forms of multi-religious cohabitation have changed throughout history due to their embeddedness id different frameworks of political organization, shifting religious ideologies, and changing forms of human mobility.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marian Burchardt is Professor of Sociology at Leipzig University, Germany. His research explores how power, diversity and subjectivity play out in public space. His the author of Faith in the Time of AIDS (2015) and co-editor of Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes (2019).
Maria Chiara Giorda is Professor of History of Religions at University of Roma Tre, Italy. Her research interests are in religious education, geography of religions, history of monasticism, and religious diversity in public spaces. She is co-editor of the book Manuale di Scienze della Religione, 2019.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geographies of Encounter
Book Subtitle: The Making and Unmaking of Multi-Religious Spaces
Editors: Marian Burchardt, Maria Chiara Giorda
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82525-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82524-9Published: 20 January 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82527-0Published: 21 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82525-6Published: 19 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 330
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Cultural Studies, Social Anthropology, Biotechnology