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

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Автор: Brunn, Stanley (Editor)

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

Язык: английский

Издательство: Dordrecht: Springer

Год: 2015

Объем: 3926 p., ill.

Формат: pdf

Размер: 101 mb

Stan Brunn labels himself a cosmopolitan Middle Westener after being raised in small towns and rural areas in a half-dozen states. He taught previously at the University of Florida and Michigan State University. He joined the University of Kentucky department in 1980 as chair and served in that capacity from 1980-88. He was appointed by the Governor as State Geographer from 1988-1989. His teaching and research interests include political, social and urban geography, the geographies of information and communication, time-space geographies and innovative cartographies. He has offered seminars on technological hazards, cyberspace, humane geographies, peace and reconciliation.

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 and other fields, including education, business, economics and law. The book presents a vast array of examples to illustrate the changes that have taken place and have led to a new world map of religions.

Beginning with an introduction of the concept of the “changing world religion map”, the book first focuses on nature, ethics and the environment. It examines humankind’s eternal search for the sacred, and discusses the emergence of “green” religion as a theme that cuts across many faiths. Next, the book turns to the theme of the pilgrimage, illustrated by many examples from all parts of the world. In its discussion of the interrelation between religion and education, it looks at the role of missionary movements. It explains the relationship between religion, business, economics and law by means of a discussion of legal and moral frameworks, and the financial and business issues of religious organizations. The next part of the book explores the many “new faces” that are part of the religious landscape and culture of the Global North (Europe, Russia, Australia and New Zealand, the U.S. and Canada) and the Global South (Latin America, Africa and Asia). It does so by looking at specific population movements, diasporas, and the impact of globalization. The volume next turns to secularization as both a phenomenon occurring in the Global religious North, and as an emerging and distinguishing feature in the metropolitan, cosmopolitan and gateway cities and regions in the Global South. The final part of the book explores the changing world of religion in regards to gender and identity issues, the political/religious nexus, and the new worlds associated with the virtual technologies and visual media.

Volume I

Part I Introduction

1 Changing World Religion Map: Status, Literature and Challenges................................

Stanley D. Brunn

Part II Nature, Ethics and Environmental Change

2 Nature, Culture and the Quest of the Sacred..............

Anne Buttimer

3 Church, Politics, Faceless Men and the Face of God in Early Twenty-First Century Australia..................

Mary C. Tehan

4 The Island Mystic/que: Seeking Spiritual Connection in a Postmodern World.........................

Laurie Brinklow

5 The Spatial Turn in Planetary Theologies: Ambiguity, Hope and Ethical Imposters...............................

Whitney A. Bauman

6 The Age of the World Motion Picture: Cosmic Visions in the Post-Earthrise Era................................

Adrian Ivakhiv

7. Weber's Protestant Ethic Thesis and Ecological Modernization: The Continuing Influence of Calvin’s Doctrine on Twenty-First Century Debates over Capitalism. Nature and Sustainability................................

Ernest J. Yanarella

8 Exploring the Green Dimensions of Islam..............

Mohammad Aslam Parvaiz

9 Making Oneself at Home in Climate Change: Religion as a Skill of Creative Adaptation...................

Sigurd Bergmann

10 Scale-Jumping and Climate Change in the Geography of Religion.........................................

Michael P. Ferber and Randolph Haluza-DeLay

11 All My Holy Mountain: Imaginations of Appalachia in Christian Responses to Mountaintop Removal Mining...............................

Andrew R.H. Thompson

12 God, Nature and Society: Views of the Tragedies of Hurricane Katrina and the Asian Tsunami..........

Janel Curry

13 Japanese Buddhism and Its Responses to Natural Disasters: Past and Present.........................

Yukio Yotsumoto

14 Reshaping the Worldview: Case Studies of Faith Groups’ Approaches to a New Australian Land Ethic...

Justin Lawson, Kelly Miller, and Geoff Wescott

15 “Let My People Grow.” The Jewish Farming Movement: A Bottom-Up Approach to Ecological and SocialSustainability......................................

Rachel Berndtson and Martha Geores

16 Religious and Moral Hybridity of Vegetarian Activism at Farm Animal Sanctuaries..........................

Timothy Joseph Fargo

Part III Sacred Spaces and Places

17 Religions and Ideologies.............................

Paul Claval

18 Sacred Space and Globalization.......................

Alyson L. Greiner

19 Dark Green Religion: Advocating for the Sacredness of Nature in a Changing World.......................

Joseph Witt

20 Reinventing Agency, Sacred Geography and Community Formation: The Case of Displaced Kashmiri Pandits in India...........................

Devinder Singh

21 Symbiosis in Diversity: The Specific Character of Slovakia's Religious Landscape..................

Juraj Majo

22 Religion Inscribed in the Landscape: Sacred Sites, Local Deities and Natural Resource Use in the Himalayas...................................

Elizabeth Allison

23 Suppression of Tibetan Religious Heritage..........

P.P. Karan

24 Archaeological Approaches to Sacred Landscapes and Rituals of Place Making........................

Edward Swenson

25 Sacred Caves of the World: Illuminating the Darkness

Leslie E. Sponsel

26 Space. Time and Heritage on a Japanese Sacred Site: The Religious Geography of Koyasan...........

Ian Astley

27 Greening the Goddess: Sacred Landscape. History and Legislation on the CamundT Hills of Mysore.....

Caleb Simmons

28 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

29 Privileged Places of Marian Piety in South America.

David Pereyra

30 Sacred Space Reborn: Protestant Monasteries in Twentieth Century Europe........................

Linda Pittman

31 Cemeteries as a Template of Religion. Non-religion and Culture........................................

Daniel W. Gade

32 Visualizing the Dead: Contemporary Cemetery Landscapes.........................................

Donald J. Zeigler

33 Sacred, Separate Places: African American Cemeteries in the Jim Crow South...................

Carroll West

Volume II

Part IV Pilgrimage Landscapes and Tourism

34 Tourism and Religion: Spiritual Journeys and Their Consequences.............................

Noga Collins-Kreiner and Geoffrey Wall

35 The Way of Saint James: A Contemporary Geographical Analysis..............................

Ruben C. Lois-Gonzalez, Valeria PaUl. Miguel Pazos-Oton, and Xose M. Santos

36 Religious Contents of Popular Guidebooks: The Case of Catholic Cathedrals in South Central Europe.....

Anton Gosar and Mi ha Koderman

37 Sacred Crossroads: Landscape and Aesthetics in Contemporary Christian Pilgrimage...............

Veronica della Dora, Avril Maddrell. and Alessandro Scafi

38 Just Like Magic: Activating Landscape of Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rural Tourism, Iceland..............

Katrin Anna Lund

39 Hindu Pilgrimages: The Contemporary Scene...........

Rana P.B. Singh and Martin J. Haigh

40 A World Religion from a Chosen Land: The Competing Identities of the Contemporary Mormon Church.......

Airen Hall

41 Religious Nationalism and Christian Zionist Pilgrimages to Holy Landscapes.....................

Tristan Sturm

42 Spaces of Rites and Locations of Risk: The Great Pilgrimage to Mecca................................

Sven Mailer

43 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

44 Geographies of Faith in Education...................

Peter J. Hemming

45 Religion. Education and the State: Rescaling the Confessional Boundaries in Switzerland...................

Mallory Schneuwly Purdie and Andrea Rota

46 Missionary Schools for Children of Missionaries: Juxtaposing Mission Ideals with Children’s Worldviews........

John Benson

47 The Role of Place and Ideology in the Career Choices of Missionary Children Who Grew Up in Tanzania...............

John Benson

48 Evangelical Short Term Missions: Dancing with the Elephant?...........................................

Lisa La George

49 Creating Havens of Westernization in Nigerian Higher Education.............................................

Jamaine Abidogun

50 Religious Influence on Education and Development in Twentieth Century Tanzania................................

Orville Nyblade

51 Kansas Versus the Creationists: Religious Conflict and Scientific Controversy in America’s Heartland............

Alexander Thomas T. Smith

52 Religious and Territorial Identities in a Cosmopolitan and Secular City: Youth in Amsterdam.........................

53 Virginie Mamadouh and Inge van der Welle Religiosity in Slovakia After the Social Change in 1989....................................

Rene' Matlovic, Viera Vlckova, and Kvetoslava Matlovicova

54 Milwaukee Catholicism Intersects with Deindustrialization and White Flight, 1950-1990.........

Steven M. Avella and Thomas Jablonsky

55 The View from Seminary: Using Library Holdings to Measure Christian Seminary Worldviews.....................

Katherine Donohue

56 Intersections of Religion and Language Revitalization...............................................

Jenny L. Davis

57 Bible Translation: Decelerating the Process of Language Shift....

Dave Brunn

58 Archaeology, the Bible and Modern Faith......................

John T. Fitzgerald

Part VI Business, Finance, Economic Development and Law

59 Belief Without Faith: The Effect of the Business of Religion in Kano State, Nigeria..........................

Ibrahim Badamasi Lambu

60 Economic Development and Cultural Change in Islamic Context: The Malaysian Experience................

Samuel Zalanga

61 Unveiling Islamic Finance: Economics, Practice and Outcomes................................................

David Bassens

62 A Marriage of Convenience? Islamic Banking and Finance Meet Neoliberalization..........................

Michael Samers

63 Pious Merchants as Missionaries and the Diffusion of Religions in Indonesia.................

Chad F. Emmett

64 Tithes, Offerings and Sugar Beets: The Economic Logistics of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints..........

J. Matthew Shumway

65 Entrepreneurial Spirituality and Community Outreach in African American Churches.......................

James H. Johnson Jr. and Lori Carter-Edwards

66 Environmental Governance, Property Rights and Judeo-Christian Tradition...............................

Kathleen Braden

67 The Camel and the Eye of the Needle: Religion. Moral Exchange and Social Impacts...........................

Lucas F. Johnston and Robert H. Wall

68 Law and Religion: The Peculiarities of the Italian Model—Emerging Issues and Controversies.....................

Maria Cristina Ivaldi

Volume III

Part VII Globalization, Diasporas and New Faces in the Global North

69 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

70 Global Dispersion of Jews: Determinants and Consequences

Sergio DellaPergola and Ira M. Sheskin

71 The Narration of Space: Diaspora Church as a Comfort Zone in the Resettlement Process for Post-communist Bulgarians in Toronto................

Mariana Mastagar

72 Temples in Diaspora: From Moral Landscapes to Therapeutic Religiosity and the Construction of Consilience in Tamil Toronto.........................

Mark Whitaker

73 Golden States of Mind: A Geography of California Consciousness.............................

Erik Davis and Jonathan Taylor

74 Lived Experience of Religion: Hindu Americans in Southern California........................

Shampa Mazumdar and Sanjoy Mazumdar

75 Multiscalar Analysis of Religious Geography in the United States..........................

Samuel M. Otterstrom

76 Bible Belt Membership Patterns. Correlates and Landscapes..........................................

Gerald R. Webster. Robert H. Watrel, J. Clark Archer, and Stanley D. Brunn

77 Transnationalism and the Soka Gakkai: Perspective and Representation Outside and Inside Japan.............

Alexandre Benod

78 The Place and Role of Alternative Forms of Religiousness in Contemporary Russia.................

Demyan Belyaev

79 The Cow and the Cross: South Asians in Russia and the Russian Christian Orthodox Church.....

Igor Kotin

80 Islam and Buddhism in the Changing Post-Soviet Religious Landscape.........................

Edward C. Holland and Meagan Todd

81 Back to the Future: Popular Belief in Russia Today.........................................

Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby and Tatiana V. Filosofova

82 The Changing Religious Mosaic of Ukraine................

Esther Long Ratajeski

83 An Exception in the Balkans: Albania’s Multiconfessional Identity....................................

Peter Jordan

84 Social and Spatial Visibility of Religion in Question: The Case of Pluricultural and Multiconfessional France........

Lionel Obadia

85 “A Most Difficult Assignment:” Mapping the Emergence of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ireland...............

David J. Butler

86 The Multifaith City in an Era of Post-secularism: The Complicated Geographies of Christians, Non-Christians and Non-faithful Across Sydney, Australia......

Kevin M. Dunn and Awais Piracha

87 Russian Rodnoverie: Revisiting Eastern and Western Paganisms.........................................

Kaarina Aitamurto

88 Evangelical and Pentecostal Churches in Montreal and Paris: Between Local Territories and Global Networks......

Frederic Dejean

89 Towards a Catholic North America?.............................

Anne Goujon, Eric Caron Malenfant, and Vegard Skirbekk

90 Changing Geographies of Immigration and Religion in the U.S. South.............................................

Patricia Ehrkamp. Caroline Nagel, and Catherine Cottrell

91 New Ecclesiologies and New Ecclesio-geographical Challenges: The Emergence of Post-ecclesiological Modernity...

Grigorios D. Papathomas

92 Hinduism Meets the Global Order: The “Easternization” of the West..............................

Ake Sander and Clemens Cavallin

Part VIII Globalization, Diversity and New Faces in the Global South

93 The World’s Fastest Growing Religion: Comparing Christian and Muslim Expansion in the Modern Era..............

Philip Jenkins

94 The Emerging Geography of Global Christianity: New Places, Faces and Perceptions.............................

Robert Strauss

95 Deterritorialization in Havana: Is There an Alternative Based on Santeria?..........................................

Yasser Farres, Alberto Mataran. and Yulier Avello

96 Calling a Trickster Deity a “Bad” Name in Order to Hang It? Deconstructing Indigenous African Epistemologies Within Global Religious Maps of the Universe................

Afe Adogame

97 Christianity in Africa: Pentecostalism and Sociocultural Change in the Context of Neoliberal Globalization...........

Samuel Zalanga

98 Negotiating Everyday Islam After Socialism: A Study of the Kazakhs of Bayan-Ulgii, Mongolia.............

Namara Brede, Holly R. Barcus, and Cynthia Werner

99 How the West Was ‘One’ (Hinduism and the Aquarian West)......................................

Martin J. Haigh

100 Hinduism and Globalization...................................

Rana RB. Singh and Mikael Aktor

101 The Diasporic Hindu Home Temple..............................

Carolyn V. Prorok

102 Liberation Theology in Latin America: Dead or Alive?.........

Thia Cooper

103 Africa’s Liberation Theologies: An Historical-Hermeneutical Analysis........................

Gerald West

104 Asian Liberation Theologies: An Eco-feminist Approach for a More Equitable and Justice Oriented World.............

Kathleen Nadeau

105 Cuba’s Distinct Religious Traditions: Better Social Changes Come Oh Soooo Slowly........................

Jualynne Dodson

106 Global Networks and the Emergent Sites of Contemporary Evangelicalism in Brazil....................

Jeff Garmany and Hannes Gerhardt

107 Legacy of a Minority Religion: Christians and Christianity in Contemporary Japan......................

Christina Ghanbarpour

108 The Chinese Church: A Post-denominational Reality?...........

Chios Starr

109 Protestant Christianity in China. Urban and Rural: Negotiating the State and Propagating the Faith......

Teresa Zimmerman-Liu and Teresa Wright

110 Analysis of the Emergence of Missionary Territorial Strategies in a Mexican Urban Context................

Rene'e de la Torre Castellanos and Cristina Gutierrez Zuniga

Volume IV

Part IX Secularization

111 Secularization and Transformation of Religion in Post-War Europe.......................

Hans Knippenberg

112 Visualizing Secularization Through Changes in Religious Stamp Issues in Three Catholic European Countries...................................

Stanley D. Brunn

113 Demographic Forces Shaping the Religious Landscape of Vienna..................................

Anne Goujon and Ramon Bauer

114 Secularization in Mexico City as a Constant. Current Paradigm.....................................

Armando Garcia Chiang

115 Secularization and Church Property: The Case of Czechia..................................

Martina Hupkova, TomaS Havhcek, and Daniel Reeves

116 Indian Secular Nationalism Versus Hindu Nationalism in the 2004 General Elections............

Igor Kotin

117 Atheist Geographies and Geographies of Atheism........

Barney Warf

118 Representing the Unrepresentable: Towards a Strong Cultural Geography of Spirituality..........

Justin Wilford

119 Postsecular Stirrings? Geographies of Rapprochement and Crossover Narratives in the Contemporary City....

Paul Cloke

120 Faith Islands in Hedonopolis: Ambivalent Adaptation in Las Vegas..............................

Rex J. Rowley

121 Marketing Religion and Church Shopping: Does One Size P it All?............................

Stanley D. Brunn, Wesley Jetton, and Barbara Palmquist

Part X Megachurches and Architecture

122 Sacred Ambitions, Global Dreams: Inside the Korean Megachurch Phenomenon...................

Michael Be'gin and Caleb Kwang-Eun Shin

123 Megafaith for the Megacity: The Global Megachurch Phenomenon..............................

Scott L. Thu mm a and Warren Bird

124 Houston Mosques: Space, Place and Religious Meaning

Akel Ismail Kahera and Bakama BakamaNume

125 Sacred Place-Making: The Presence and Quality of Archetypal Design Principles in Sacred Place....

Arsenio Rodrigues

126 Reinventing Muslim Space in Suburbia: The Salaam Centre in Harrow, North London..........

Claire Dwyer

127 Islam and Urbanism in Indonesia: The Mosque as Urban Identity in Javanese Cities....

Hafid Setiadi

128 The Catholic Church and Neo-Gothic Architecture in Latin America: Scales for Their Analysis........

Martin M. Checa-Artasu

129 Changing Russian Orthodox Landscapes in Post-Soviet Moscow..............................

Dmitrii Sidorov

Part XI Culture: Museums, Drama. Fashion, Food, Music, Sports and Science Fiction

130 The Nature Theatres of the Occult Revival: Performance and Modern Esoteric Religions..........

Edmund B. Lingan

131 Affect, Medievalism and Temporal Drag: Oberammergau’s Passion Play Event..................

Jill Stevenson

132 Windows on the Eternal: Spirituality. Heritage and Interpretation in Faith Museums................

Margaret M. Gold

133 The Creationist Tales: Understanding a Postmodern Museum Pilgrimage.........................

Jeffrey Steller

134 The Religious Inhibition at the Capital Museum in Beijing: What It Tells Us and Does Not Tell Us......

Shangyi Zhou and Stanley D. Brunn

135 Islam on the Catwalk: Marketing Veiling-Fashion in Turkey..............................

Banu Gtikariksel and Anna J. Secor

136 Fashion. Shame and Pride: Constructing the Modest Fashion Industry in Three Faiths............

Reina Lewis

137 Putting Christian Congregational Song on the Geographer’s Map................................

Andrew M. McCoy and John D. Witvliet

138 Tracing the Migration of a Sacred/Secular Tune Across Tunebooks and Its Traditions in Evangelical Nineteenth Century America: “The Peacock" Variations ....

Nikos Pappas

139 Landscapes and Soundscapes: How Place Shapes Christian Congregational Song...................

C. Michael Hawn

140 Streams of Song: The Landscape of Christian Spirituality in North America..........................

C. Michael Hawn

141 Streams of Song: Developing a New Hymnal for the Presbyterian Church (USA)......................

Beverly A. Howard

142 “Tune Your Hearts with One Accord": Compiling Celebrating Grace, a Hymnal for Baptists in English-Speaking North America......................

David W. Music

143 The Musical Shape of Cultural Assimilation in the Religious Practice of Pennsylvania-Dutch Lutherans.

Daniel Jay Grimminger

144 Understanding Churchscapes: Theology, Geography and Music of the Closed Brethren in Germany............

Friedlind Riedel and Simon Runkel

145 The Bible, the Hymns and Identity: The Prophet Isaiah Shembe and the Hymns of His Nazareth Baptist Church.......................................

Nkosinathi Sithole

146 Music as Catechesis and Cultural Transformation in the East African Revival..........................

Anna Swynford

147 Zen Buddhism and Music: Spiritual Shakuhachi Tours to Japan............................

Kiku Day

148 The Festival of World Sacred Music: Creating a Destination for Tourism. Spirituality, and the Other...

Deborah Justice

149 More Than Meets the Ear: The Agency of Hindustani Music in the Lives and Careers of John Coltrane and George Harrison..................................

Kevin D. Kehrberg

150 Eating. Drinking and Maintenance of Community: Jewish Dietary Laws and Their Effects on Separateness

Stanley Waterman

151 The Shrines of Sport: Sacred Space and the World’s Athletic Venues......................

Arthur Remillard

152 Religion's Future and the Future’s Religions Through the Lens of Science Fiction..................

James F. McGrath

Part XII Organizations

153 Global Reach and Global Agenda: The World Council of Churches........................

Katharina Kunter

154 Religious Presence in the Context of the United Nations Organization: A Survey.........

Karsten Lehmann

155 Preparing Professional Interculturalists for Interfaith Collaboration.........................

Naomi Ludeman Smith

156 Multifaith Responses to Global Risks..................

Anna Halafoff

157 Effecting Environmental Change: The Challenges of Transnational Environmental Faith-Based Organizations

Deborah Lee and Lily Kong

158 Mapping Methodism: Migration, Diversity and Participatory Research in the Methodist Church in Britain........................................

Lia Dong Shimada and Christopher Stephens

159 Territoriality and the Muslim Spiritual Boards of Post-Soviet Russia.............................

Matthew A. Derrick

160 A Needs-Based CIS Approach to Accessibility and Location Efficiency of Eaith-Based Social Programs...

Jason E. VanHorn and Nathan A. Mosurinjohn

161 Welcome the Stranger or Seal the Borders? Conflicting Religious Responses to Migrants..............

Thia Cooper

162 Evangelical Geopolitics: Practices of Worship, Justice and Peacemaking..................................

Nick Megoran

163 From the Church of the Powerful to the Church of the Poor: Liberation Theology and Catholic Praxis in the Philippines................................

William Holden

164 Faith Based Organizations and International Responses to Forced Migration............................

Sarah Ann Deardorff Miller

Volume V

Part XIII Identity, Gender and Culture

165 Islam and Assisted Reproduction in the Middle East: Comparing the Sunni Arab World, Shia Iran and Secular Turkey.......................................

Zeynep B. Gllrtin, Marcia C. Inhorn, and Soraya Tremayne

166 The Perpetration of Abuse in Intimate Relationships: Does Religion Make a Difference?.........................

Claire M. Renzetti. Amy Messer, C. Nathan DeWall, and Richard S. Pond

167 Chinese Hui Muslim Pilgrims—Back Home from Mecca: Negotiating Identity and Gender, Status and Afterlife.

Maria Jaschok and Shui Jingjun

168 The Freedom of Wandering, the Protection of Settling in Place: Gendered Symbolizations of Space in the Practices of Hindu Renouncers in Rajasthan.....

Antoinette E. DeNapoli

169 Religious Identity and Gender on the Edges of the Nation: The Leh District of India’s Jammu and Kashmir State...

Sara Smith

170 Zooming-In on Terms and Spaces: Women’s Perspectives and Cognitive Mapping in a West Bank Settlement.......

Hannah Mayne

171 The Geography of Jewish Intermarriage in Five U.S. Urban Areas......................................

Bruce Phillips

172 The Transnational Debate Over Homosexuality in the Anglican Communion.............................

Robert M. Vanderbeck, Joanna Sadgrove, Gill Valentine, Johan Andersson, and Kevin Ward

173 Religion and State in Marriage. Cohabitation and Civil Partnership: Examples. Typologies and Contestations from the United Kingdom.............

Paul G. Weller

174 Religion and Attitudes Towards Gay Rights in Northern Ireland: The Cod Gap Revisited............

Bernadette C. Hayes and Lizanne Dowds

175 Moral Hazard. Governing Culture and Localized Christian Right Gay Panic in Indiana..................

Christopher A. Airriess

176 Geographic Support for the Ordination of Same Sex Clergy by American Lutheran

and Presbyterian Denominations........................

Bradley C. Rundquist and Stanley D. Brunn

Part XIV Politics, Reconciliation and Advocacy

177 Are High Levels of Existential Security Conducive to Secularization? A Response to Our Critics... Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart

178 The Religious Context in Political Place-Making..

Herman van der Wusten

179 The Geography of Religious Freedom...............

Daniel McGowin and Gerald R. Webster

180 Geographies of Cosmic War: Comparing Secular and Religious Terrorism in Space and Time........

Steven M. Radii and Colin Flint

181 A Content Analysis of Session-Opening Prayers in the U.S. Congress.....................

Fred M. Shelley

182 Political Pilgrimages: American Presidents and Religious Communities, 1933-2012.............

Kevin Coe, David Domke, and Anthony Schmidt

183 Walking on the Razor's Kdge: Religious Groups and the 2011 Arab Spring..................

Ghazi-Walid Falah and Laura J. Khoury

184 The Role of Religion in the Formation of a New State on the World Map: South Sudan.....

Rainer Rothfuss and Yakubu Joseph

185 Quaker Lobbying on Behalf of the New START Treaty in 2010: A Window into the World of the Friends Committee on National Legislation.

Stephen W. Angell

186 Interpreting the Transforming Geographic Mosaic of Religion in America: Its Impact on Congressional Representation and Increasing Political Polarization.

Josiah R. Baker

187 Interfaith Advocacy Groups in American Politics..

Katherine Knutson

188 The Flection of a Lesbian Mayor in a Religiously Conservative City: The Case of Houston, Texas....

Nancy Palmer Stockwell and Ira M. Sheskin

189 Moral Imperatives: Faith-Based Approaches to Human Trafficking..................

Martha Bettis Gee and Ryan D. Smith

190 Violence, Tolerance and Religious Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland................

John D. Brewer and Francis Teeney

191 Religion, Space and Peace in Sri Lanka: Transforming Spaces of Freedom Threatened

by Violence into Islands of Civility................

Shirley Lai Wijesinghe

192 Religion and the Social Reconstruction of Memory Amid Violence in Bojaya, Choco (Colombia): Creating Transitional Justice from Below.....................

Sandra Milena Rios Oyola

193 From Nasser's Revolution to the Fall of the Muslim Brotherhood...........................

Seif Da’Na

Part XV Virtual Worlds and the Visual Media

194 A Breath of Narcissism: Hollywood as Proselytizer of Secular Religion.................

C.K. Robertson

195 Towards a Virtual Geography of Religion..............

Paul Emerson Teusner

196 The Creation of Secularist Space on the Internet.....

Christopher Smith and Richard Cimino

197 Technology and the Changing Geography of Religious Media........................

Thomas A. Wikle

198 Introducing the Study of Religions at The Open University: The Scope and Limitations of a Distance Learning Approach to the Study of Religions.........

Gwilym Beckerlegge

199 Facebook Gets Religion: Fund-Raising by Religious Organizations on Social Networks.......

Mark D. Johns

200 My (Second) Life's Mission: Landscapes of Virtual Reality Proselytization..................

Andrew Boulton

201 Christianity and Digital Media......................

Tim Hutchings

202 The People of the Nook: Jewish Use of the Internet..

Ira M. Sheskin and Micah Liben

203 Mapping Japanese Religions on the Internet..........

Danilo Giambra and Erica Baffelli

204 Virtual Buddhism: Online Communities, Sacred Places and Objects........................

Louise Connelly

205 German-Based Cyber-Dacwah 2.0: Back to the Roots with Forward Technology.............

Erik Munder

206 The “Almost” Territories of the Charismatic Christian Internet............

Anna Rose Stewart

207 Christian-Atheist Billboard Wars in the United States

Daniel H. Olsen

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