The geography of religion [[electronic resource] ] : faith, place, and space / / Roger W. Stump

• Autore: Stump Roger W. <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (442 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.6
• Soggetto topico: Religion and geography; Religion
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-399) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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 ; 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 ; 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 ; 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 ; Personal Religious Trdnsformation
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The geography of religion
• ISBN: 1-283-88207-8; 0-7425-8149-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779362203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II