Religion and Place [electronic resource] Landscape, Politics and Piety / edited by Peter Hopkins, Lily Kong, Elizabeth Olson.

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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hopkins, Peter (Editor)
Kong, Lily (Editor)
Olson, Elizabeth (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Subjects:
Human geography.
Religion.
Online Access:
Springer English/International eBooks 2013 - Full Set: 2013 (Springer Link)
Variant Title:
Religion and Place: Landscape, Politics and Piety
Format: Electronic eBook
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.