Religion, Space, and Place: The Spatial Turn in Research on Religion

Following a consideration of the impact of the late twentieth-century spatial turn on the study of religion by geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and religious studies scholars, two trends are distinguished: the poetics of place and the sacred; and politics, religion, and the co...

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Auteur principal: Knott, Kim 1955- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Berghahn [2010]
Dans: Religion and society
Année: 2010, Volume: 1, Numéro: 1, Pages: 29-43
Sujets non-standardisés:B Geography of religion
B Spatial Turn
B space and place
B spatial method and theory
B poetics and politics
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Résumé:Following a consideration of the impact of the late twentieth-century spatial turn on the study of religion by geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and religious studies scholars, two trends are distinguished: the poetics of place and the sacred; and politics, religion, and the contestation of space. Discussion of these reveals substantially different approaches to religion, space, and place—one phenomenological, the other social constructivist. The spatial turn has been extremely fruitful for research on religion, bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines, and connecting not only to traditional areas such as sacred space and pilgrimage, but to new ones such as embodiment, gender, practice and religious-secular engagements.
ISSN:2150-9301
Contient:Enthalten in: Religion and society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2010.010103