ISBN:
0742510808
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9780742581494
,
9780742510807
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 423 p)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Geography of Religion : Faith, Place, and Space
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Religion and geography
;
Religion
;
Religion and geography
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The only book of its kind, this balanced and accessibly written text explores the geographical study of religion. Roger W. Stump provides a full and impartial discussion of religious doctrines, beliefs, events, and practices. The author's broad, comparative approach is bolstered by a wealth of case studies ranging from the major world religions to a diversity of indigenous, unconventional, and extinct religions. Illustrating religious concepts with both traditional and current examples, Stump considers the historical and contemporary interactions between religion and a wide range of social, po
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. Introduction; The Upper West Side Eruv; Religion as a Cultural System; The Mutability of Religions; The Multiformity of Religions; Faith, Place, and Space; Religious Distributions; Context and Faith; Secular Space; Sacred Space; Notes; 2. The Spatial Dynamics of Religious Distributions; Religious Hearths; The Indic Region; Vedism; Jainism; Buddhism; Hinduism; Sikhism; The Semitic Region; Proto-Judaism; Judaism; Christianity; Islam; Processes of Spatial Change; Migration
Description / Table of Contents:
Incidental Diffusion through MigrationReligious Meanings in Migration; Persecution and Discrimination; Migration and New Beginnings; Conversion; Spatial Effects of Missionary Activity; Spatial Effects of Religious Hegemony; Spatial Effects of Selective Social Factors; Conversion and Place; Contraction; Conclusions; Notes; 3. The Contextuality of Religions; Hinduism; Southern India; Muslim Conquests and Regional Diversity; Regional and Local Developments; Judaism; Sephardic Judaism; Ashkenazic Judaism; Hasidic Judaism; Reform Judaism; Ultra-Orthodox Judaism; Buddhism
Description / Table of Contents:
Origins of Mahayana BuddhismOrigins of Theravada Buddhism; Diffusion in Central and East Asia; China; Korea; Japan; Tibet; Mongolia; Diffusion in Southeast Asia; Burma and Thailand; Cambodia and Laos; Vietnam; Christianity; Eastern and Western Christianity; Eastern Orthodoxy; Roman Catholicism; Protestantism; Lutheranism; Zwinglianism; Calvinism; Anglicanism; Puritanism and Pietism; Radicals and Separatists; Christianity in the Americas; Christianity in Africa; Islam; Sunni Islam; Sunni Legal Schools; Sufism; Reformism and Revivalism; Sunni Funddmentalism; Shia Islam; Twelver Shiism
Description / Table of Contents:
Shiite SectsModern Heterodox Sects; Conclusions; Notes; 4. Religious Territoriality in Secular Space; Internal Expressions of Religious Territoriality; The Communal Scale; Communal Spaces; Hegemonic Religious Groups; Religious Minorities; Monastic Spaces; Narrower Scales; Body Space; Home and Family Space; Wider Scales; Imagined Communities of Believers; Religious Institutions; Less Formal Sources of lnteraction; Religion and Secular Social Structures; Religion and Political Structures; Intersections among Scales; External Expressions of Religious Territoriality; The Communal Scale
Description / Table of Contents:
Public SpaceSocial Space; Narrower Scales; Religious Adherence; Moral Behavior; Wider Scales; The State; International and Global Concerns; Intersections among Scales; Conclusions; Notes; 5. The Meanings and Uses of Sacred Space; Forms of Sacred Space; The Cosmic Scale; Holy Lands; Natural Spaces; Sacred Cities; Unique Local Spaces; Ordinary Local Spaces; Microscales; Adherent Interactions with Sacred Space; Ordinary Worship Practices; Life Transitions; Pilgrimage; Access to Divine Power or Guidance; Proximity to the Divine; Veneration of Devout Believers and Saints
Description / Table of Contents:
Personal Religious Trdnsformation
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-399) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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