Geography Of Religion

Preface

Chapter 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

Chapter 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 Migration

Religious 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

Chapter 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 Buddhism

Origins 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 Fundamentalism

Shia Islam

Twelver Shiism

Shiite Sects

Modern Heterodox Sects

Conclusions

Notes

Chapter 4: Religious Territoriality In Secular Space

Internal Expressions Of Religious Territoriality

The Communal Scale

Communal Spaces

Hegemonic Religious Groups

Religious Minorities

Monastic Spaces

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Additional Info
The only book of its kind, this balanced and accessibly written text explores the geographical study of religion. Roger W. Stump presents a clear and meticulous examination of the intersection of religious belief and practice with the concepts of place and space. He begins by analyzing the factors that have shaped the spatial distributions of religious groups, including the seminal events that have fostered the organization of religions in diverse hearths and the subsequent processes of migration and conversion that have spread religious beliefs. The author then assesses how major religions have diversified as they have become established in disparate places, producing a variety of religious systems from a common tradition. Stump explores the efforts of religious groups to control secular space at various scales, relating their own uses of particular spaces and the meanings they attribute to space beyond the boundaries of their own communities. Examining sacred space as a diverse but recurring theme in religious belief, the book considers its role in religious forms of spatial behavior and as a source of conflict within and between religious groups. Refreshingly jargon-free and impartial, this text provides a broad, comparative view of religion as a focus of geographical inquiry.

-Offers a broad, comparative approach that includes a wealth of case studies and examples from a wide variety of religious traditions, including the major world religions as well as a diversity of indigenous, unconventional, or extinct religions

-Presents full and impartial discussions of religious doctrines, beliefs, events, and practices as they relate to key geographical ideas

-Provides a comprehensive view of religion as an expression of culture, emphasizing both an outsider’s view of religious phenomena and an insider’s view of religious experience

-Emphasizes the central importance of religious faith as a motivating force in both traditional and contemporary contexts

-Considers the interactions between religion and diverse social, political, and cultural phenomena

-Illustrates religious concepts and phenomena with a combination of traditional and contemporary examples

-Discusses geographical and religious ideas in clear, accessible language

-Organizes ideas in a straightforward, logical sequence

-Includes a rich variety of maps and photographs

-An essential text for courses on the geography of religion and an ideal supplement for courses in cul