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Geographic roots, anthropological routes: New avenues in geographies of religions

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Matthew Shahin Richardson

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© 2022 The Authors. Geography Compass published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Since their advent, geographies of religions have emerged as a kaleidoscopic, vital, yet often misunderstood subset of social and cultural geography. In this article, I respond to Kong's call (2010) for geographers to turn to the often neglected functional, mythic, and symbolic dimensions of religion. First, I offer a brief disciplinary biography, outlining seminal currents of research over the past century. In doing so, I identify two scalar poles of analysis around which the emergent literature is oriented – the individual/affective and the collective/structural. At the interface of these poles is a rich, albeit under-theorised, field of geographic analysis. To address this, I turn to Turner's theory on ritual performance as a way for geographers to better approach this interface and engage with the fundamentality of rituals in the (re)generation of religious worlds.

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Author(s): Richardson M

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Geography Compass

Year: 2022

Volume: 16

Issue: 3

Print publication date: 01/03/2022

Online publication date: 05/02/2022

Acceptance date: 21/01/2022

Date deposited: 03/08/2022

ISSN (electronic): 1749-8198

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd

URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12613

DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12613

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