Religion and Place Landscape, Politics and Piety

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...

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Other Authors: Hopkins, Peter (Editor), Kong, Lily (Editor), Olson, Elizabeth (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2013, 2013
Edition:1st ed. 2013
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1: Introduction: Religion and place: landscape, politics and piety: Elizabeth Olson, Peter Hopkins and Lily Kong
  • 2: Christian evangelizing across national boundaries: technology, cultural capital and the intellectualization of religion: Lily Kong
  • 3: New cities in the Muslim world: the cultural politics of planning an ‘Islamic’ city: Sarah Moser
  • 4: Metaphors to live by: identity formation and resistance among minority Muslims in Israel: Nimrod Luz
  • 5: Myth, miramiento and the making of religious landscapes: Elizabeth Olson
  • 6: ‘You can't know how they are inside’: the ambivalence of veiling and discourses of the other in Turkey: Banu Gökarıksel and Anna Secor
  • 7: Different democracy? Arab immigrants, religion and democratic citizenship: Lynn Staeheli and Caroline Nagel
  • 8: ‘It is a church, not a shelter!’ Space, Religion and Migrants in inner city Johannesburg: Barbara Bompani
  • 9: Homo Religiosus? Religion and Immigrant Subjectivities: David Ley and Justin Tse
  • 10: ‘There’s just no space for me there’: Christian Feminists in the UK and the performance of space and religion: Giselle Vincett
  • 11: Somewhere between religion and spirituality? Places of retreat in contemporary Britain: David Conradson
  • 12: The Space that Faith Makes: Towards a (hopeful) Ethos of Engagement:Julian Holloway