Religion and Place: Landscape, Politics and Piety by Peter Hopkins
By Peter Hopkins
This precise assortment highlights the significance of panorama, politics and piety to our understandings of faith and position. The geographies of faith have built swiftly within the final couple of a long time and this ebook presents either a conceptual framing of the major matters and debates concerned, and wealthy illustrations via empirical case reports. The chapters span the self-discipline of human geography and canopy contexts as varied as veiling in Turkey, spiritual landscapes in rural Peru, and refugees and religion in South Africa. a couple of favorite students and rising researchers learn topical topics in every one enticing bankruptcy with major foci being: non secular transnationalism and non secular landscapes; gendering of spiritual identities and contexts; model, religion and the physique; identification, resistance and trust; immigrant identities, citizenship and areas of trust; replacement spiritualities and locations of retreat and appeal. jointly they make a sequence of vital contributions that light up the crucial position of geography to the that means and implications of lived faith, public piety and spiritual embodiment. As such, this assortment might be of a lot curiosity to researchers and scholars engaged on subject matters with regards to faith and position, together with human geographers, sociologists, spiritual stories and non secular schooling scholars.
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2 Case 1: Patricia Lee, Late 30s, Alpha Participant Pat is a cosmopolitan citizen of the world. A Singaporean by birth, her formative years were spent in a premier girls’ school in Singapore. She speaks impeccable English and travels widely as part of her work in an international foundation in Singapore. A non-Christian at the time of attending the Alpha course, Pat was in search of answers. She hoped to be convinced through a church that was not “deliriously happy or grimly silent” and was introduced to the Alpha course by someone she met in the course of work.
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