Sacred Worlds: An Introduction to Geography and ReligionThis book, the first in the field for two decades, looks at the relationships between geography and religion. It represents a synthesis of research by geographers of many countries, mainly since the 1960s. No previous book has tackled this emerging field from such a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, and never before have such a variety of detailed case studies been pulled together in so comparative or illuminating a way. Examples and case studies have been drawn from all the major world religions and from all continents from both a historical and contemporary perspective. Major themes covered in the book include the distribution of religion and the processes by which religion and religious ideas spread through space and time. Some of the important links between religion and population are also explored. A great deal of attention is focused on the visible manifestations of religion on the cultural landscape, including landscapes of worship and of death, and the whole field of sacred space and religious pilgrimage. |
Contents
GEOGRAPHY AND RELIGION Context and content | 1 |
INTERACTION | 2 |
EMERGENCE AND EVOLUTION | 7 |
GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT | 18 |
NICHE WITHIN GEOGRAPHY | 21 |
PROSPECT | 25 |
CONCLUSION | 30 |
REFLECTIONS ON RELIGION | 31 |
DYNAMICS How religions change | 128 |
DYNAMICS OF DIFFUSION | 138 |
RELIGIOUS ADHERENCE | 143 |
RELIGIOUS PERSISTENCE | 149 |
MIGRATION ETHNICITY AND RELIGION | 153 |
RELIGIOUS CULTURE REGIONS | 158 |
CONCLUSION | 167 |
RELIGION AND POPULATION | 169 |
CONTEXT | 32 |
DIMENSIONS | 39 |
DYNAMICS | 45 |
SECULARISATION | 48 |
RELIGION AND STATE | 52 |
CONCLUSION | 55 |
DISTRIBUTIONS Spatial patterns of religion | 56 |
DATA | 57 |
NATIONAL PATTERNS | 65 |
THE UNITED STATES | 75 |
CONCLUSION | 91 |
DIFFUSION Religious beliefs and organisations | 93 |
GLOBAL PROCESSES AND PATTERNS | 94 |
PRINCIPLES OF RELIGIOUS DIFFUSION | 99 |
RELIGIONS OF THE INDOGANGETIC HEARTH | 101 |
RELIGIONS OF THE SEMITIC HEARTH | 103 |
DIFFUSION OF THE REFORMATION IN EUROPE | 111 |
CASE STUDIES OF RELIGIOUS DIFFUSION | 117 |
CONCLUSION | 127 |
RELIGION AND DEVELOPMENT | 176 |
RELIGION AND POLITICS | 178 |
CONCLUSION | 195 |
RELIGION AND LANDSCAPE | 197 |
LANDSCAPES OF WORSHIP | 199 |
CHURCH DISTRIBUTION AND DYNAMICS | 207 |
LANDSCAPES OF DEATH | 213 |
RELIGION AND THE GENERAL LANDSCAPE | 226 |
CONCLUSION | 244 |
SACRED PLACES AND PILGRIMAGE | 245 |
RELIGIOUS ECOLOGY | 246 |
SACRED PLACES | 249 |
PILGRIMAGE | 258 |
CONCLUSION | 285 |
EPILOGUE | 286 |
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