Religion and Place - Landscape, Politics and Piety (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	September 2012
First published:	2013
Editors:	Peter Hopkins • Lily Kong • Elizabeth Olson
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	222
Edition:	2013 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-9400746848
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General
LSN:	9400746849
Barcode:	9789400746848

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