The Changing World Religion Map Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Brunn, Stanley D. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Θέματα: Religion.; Cultural heritage.; Religion > Philosophy.; Geography.; Human geography.; Religious Studies.; Religious Studies, general.; Human Geography.; Geography, general.; Cultural Heritage.; Philosophy of Religion.

This extensive work explores the changing world of religions, faiths and practices. It discusses a broad range of issues and phenomena that are related to religion, including nature, ethics, secularization, gender and identity. Broadening the context, it studies the interrelation between religion an...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• VOLUME 1 PART I: INTRODUCTION
• Chapter 1.1: The Changing World Religion Map: Status, Literature and Challenges; Stanley D. Brunn
• PART II: NATURE, ETHICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
• Chapter 2.1: Nature, Culture and the Quest of the Sacred; Anne Buttimer
• Chapter 2.2: Church, Politics, Faceless Men and the Face of God in Early 21st Century Australia; Mary C. Tehan
• Chapter 2.3: The Island Mystic/que: Seeking Spiritual Connection in a Postmodern World; Laurie Brinklow
• Chapter 2.4: The Spatial Turn in Planetary Theologies: Ambiguity, Hope and Ethical Imposters; Whitney A. Bauman
• Chapter 2.5: The Age of the World Motion Picture: Cosmic Visions in the Post-Earthrise Era; Adrian Ivakhiv
• Chapter 2.6: Weber’s Protestant Ethic Thesis and Ecological Modernization: The Continuing Influence of Calvin’s Doctrine on 21st Century Debates over Capitalism, Nature and Sustainability; Ernest J. Yanarella
• Chapter 2.7: Exploring the Green Dimensions of Islam; Mohammad Aslam Parvaiz
• Chapter 2.8: Making Oneself at Home in Climate Change: Religion as a Skill of Creative Adaptation; Sigurd Bergmann
• Chapter 2.9: Scale-jumping and Climate Change in the Geography of Religion; Michael P. Ferber and Randolph Haluza-DeLay
• Chapter 2.10: All My Holy Mountain: Imaginations of Appalachia in Christian Responses to Mountaintop Removal Mining; Andrew R. H. Thompson
• Chapter 2.11: God, Nature and Society: Views of the Tragedies of Hurricane Katrina and the Asian Tsunami; Janel Curry
• Chapter 2.12: Japanese Buddhism and its Responses to Natural Disasters: Past and Present; Yukio Yotsumoto
• Chapter 2.13: Reshaping the Worldview: Case Studies of Faith Groups’ Approaches to a New Australian Land Ethic; Justin Lawson, Kelly Miller and Geoff Wescott
• Chapter 2.14: “Let My People Grow.” The Jewish Farming Movement: A Bottom-up Approach to Ecological and Social Sustainability; Rachel Berndtson and Martha Geores
• Chapter 2.15: Religious and Moral Hybridity of Vegetarian Activism at Farm Animal Sanctuaries; Timothy Joseph Fargo
• PART III: SACRED SPACES AND PLACES
• Chapter 3.1: Religions and Ideologies; Paul Claval
• Chapter 3.2: Sacred Space and Globalization; Alyson L. Greiner
• Chapter 3.3: Dark Green Religion: Advocating for the Sacredness of Nature in a Changing World; Joseph Witt
• Chapter 3.4: Reinventing Agency, Sacred Geography and Community Formation: The Case of Displaced Kashmiri Pandits in India; Devinder Singh
• Chapter 3.5: Symbiosis in Diversity: The Specific Character of Slovakia’s Religious Landscape; Juraj Majo
• Chapter 3.6: Religion Inscribed in the Landscape: Sacred Sites, Local Deities and Natural Resource Use in the Himalayas; Elizabeth Allison
• Chapter 3.7: Suppression of Tibetan Religious Heritage; P. P. Karan
• Chapter 3.8: Archaeological Approaches to Sacred Landscapes and Rituals of Place Making; Edward Swenson
• Chapter 3.9: Sacred Caves of the World: Illuminating the Darkness; Leslie E. Sponsel
• Chapter 3.10: Space, Time and Heritage on a Japanese Sacred Site: The Religious Geography of Kōyasan; Ian Astley
• Chapter 3.11: Greening the Goddess: Sacred Landscape, History and Legislation on the Cāmuņḍī Hills of Mysore; Caleb Simmons
• Chapter 3.12: Pollution and the Renegotiation of River Goddess Worship and Water Use Practices among the Hindu Devotees of India’s Ganges/Ganga River; Sya Buryn Kedzior
• Chapter 3.13: Privileged Places of Marian Piety in South America; David Pereyra
• Chapter 3.14: The Fleas in God’s Coat: Protestant Monasteries in 20th Century Europe; Linda Pittman
• Chapter 3.15: Cemeteries as a Template of Religion, Non-religion and Culture; Daniel W. Gade
• Chapter 3.16: Visualizing the Dead: Contemporary Cemetery Landscapes; Donald J. Zeigler
• Chapter 3.17: Sacred, Separate Places: African American Cemeteries in the Jim Crow South; Carroll West. VOLUME 2 PART IV: PILGRIMAGE LANDSCAPES AND TOURISM
• Chapter 4.1: Tourism and Religion: Spiritual Journeys and Their Consequences; Noga Collins-Kreiner and Geoffrey Wall
• Chapter 4.2: The Way of Saint James: A Contemporary Geographical Aanalysis; Rubén C. Lois-González, Valerià Paul, Miguel Pazos-Otón, and Xosé M. Santos Solla
• Chapter 4.3: Religious Contents of Popular Guidebooks: The Case of Catholic Cathedrals in South Central Europe; Anton Gosar and Miha Koderman
• Chapter 4.4: Sacred Crossroads: Landscape and Aesthetics in Contemporary Christian Pilgrimage; Veronica della Dora, Avril Maddrell and Alessandro Scafi
• Chapter 4.5: Just Like Magic: Activating Landscape of Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rural Tourism, Iceland; Katrín Anna Lund
• Chapter 4.6: Hindu Pilgrimages: The Contemporary Scene; Rana P. B. Singh and Martin J. Haigh
• Chapter 4.7: A World Religion from a Chosen Land: The Competing Identities of the Contemporary Morman Church; Airen Hall
• Chapter 4.8: Religious Nationalism and Christian Zionist Pilgrimages to Holy Landscapes; Tristan Sturm
• Chapter 4.9: Spaces of Rites and Locations of Risk: The Great Pilgrimage to Mecca; Sven Müller
• Chapter 4.10: Finding the Real America on the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail: Landscapes and Meanings of a Contemporary Secular Pilgrimage; Thomas W. Crawford
• PART V: EDUCATION AND CHANGING WORLDVIEWS
• Chapter 5.1: Geographies of Faith in Education; Peter J. Hemming
• Chapter 5.2: Religion, Education and the State: Rescaling the Confessional Boundaries in Switzerland; Mallory Schneuwly Purdie and Andrea Rota
• Chapter 5.3: Missionary Schools for Children of Missionaries: Juxtaposing Mission Ideals with Children’s Worldviews; John Benson
• Chapter 5.4: The Role of Place and Ideology in the Career Choices of Missionary Children Who Grew up in Tanzania; John Benson
• Chapter 5.5: Evangelical Short Term Missions: Dancing with the Elephant? Lisa La George
• Chapter 5.6: Creating Havens of Westernization in Nigerian Higher Education; Jamaine Abidogun
• Chapter 5.7: Religious Influence on Education and Development in 20th Century Tanzania; Orville Nyblade
• Chapter 5.8: Kansas Versus the Creationists: Religious Conflict and Scientific Controversy in America’s Heartland; Alexander Thomas T. Smith
• Chapter 5.9: Religious and Territorial Identities in a Cosmopolitan City: Youth in Amsterdam; Virginie Mamadouh and Inge van der Welle
• Chapter 5.10: Religiosity in Slovakia after the Social Change in 1989; René Matlovič, Viera Vlčková and Kvetoslava Matlovičová
• Chapter 5.11: Milwaukee Catholicism Intersects with Deindustrialization and White Flight, 1950-1990; Steven M. Avella and Thomas Jablonsky
• Chapter 5.12: The View from Seminary: Using Library Holdings to Measure Christian Seminary Worldviews; Katherine Donohue
• Chapter 5.13: Intersections of Religion and Language Revitalization; Jenny L. Davis
• Chapter 5.14: Bible Translation: Decelerating the Process of Language Shift; Dave Brunn
• Chapter 5.15: Archaeology, the Bible and Modern Faith; John T. Fitzgerald
• PART VI: BUSINESS, FINANCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND LAW
• Chapter 6.1: Belief Without faith: The Effect of Business of Religion in Nigeria; Ibrahim Badamasi Lambu
• Chapter 6.2: Economic Development and Cultural Change in Islamic Context: The Malaysian Experience; Samuel Zalanga
• Chapter 6.3: Unveiling Islamic Finance: Economics, Practice and Outcomes; David Bassens
• Chapter 6.4: A Marriage of Convenience? Islamic Banking and Finance Meet Neoliberalization; Michael Samers
• Chapter 6.5: Pious Merchants as Missionaries and the Diffusion of Religions in Indonesia; Chad F. Emmett
• Chapter 6.6: Tithes, Offerings and Sugar Beets: The Economic Logistics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; J. Matthew Shumway
• Chapter 6.7: Entrepreneurial Spirituality and Community Outreach in African American Churches; James H. Johnson, Jr.
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• Chapter 6.8: Environmental Governance, Property Rights and Judeo-Christian Tradition; Kathleen Braden
• Chapter 6.9: The Camel and the Eye of the Needle: Religion, Moral Exchange and Social Impacts; Lucas F. Johnston and Robert H. Wall
• Chapter 6.10: Law and Religion: The Peculiarities of the Italian Model: Emerging Issues and Controversies; Maria Cristina Ivaldi. VOLUME 3 PART VII: GLOBALIZATION, DIASPORAS AND NEW FACED IN THE GLOBAL NORTH
• Chapter 7.1: Four Corners of the Diaspora: A Psychological Comparison of Jewish Continuity in Major Cities in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the United States; Michelle Gezentsvey Lamy
• Chapter 7.2: Global Dispersion of Jews: Determinants and Consequences; Sergio DellaPergola and Ira M. Sheskin
• Chapter 7.3: The Narration of Space: Diaspora Church as a Comfort Zone in the Resettlement Process for Post-communist Bulgarians in Toronto; Mariana Mastagar
• Chapter 7.4: Temples in Diaspora: From Moral Landscapes to Therapeutic Religiosity and the Construction of Consilience in Tamil Toronto; Mark Whitaker
• Chapter 7.5: Golden States of Mind: A Geography of California Consciousness; Erik Davis and Jonathan Taylor
• Chapter 7.6: Lived Experience of Religion: Hindu Americans in Southern California; Shampa Mazumdar and Sanjoy Mazumdar
• Chapter 7.7: Multiscalar Analysis of Religious Geography in the United States; Samuel Otterstrom
• Chapter 7.8: Bible Belt Membership Patterns, Correlates and Landscapes; Gerald R. Webster, Robert H. Watrel, J. Clark Archer, and Stanley D. Brunn
• Chapter 7.9: Transnationalism and the Sôka Gakkai: Perspective and Representation Outside and Inside Japan; Alexandre Benod
• Chapter 7.10: The Place and Role of Alternative Forms of Religiousness in Contemporary Russia; Demyan Belyaev
• Chapter 7.11: The Cow and the Cross: South Asians in Russia and the Russian Christian Orthodox Church; Igor Kotin
• Chapter 7.12: Islam and Buddhism in the Changing Post-Soviet Religious Landscape; Edward C. Holland and Meagan Todd
• Chapter 7.13: Back to the Future: Popular Belief in Russia Today; Jean.