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Religion

Religion. How is religion understood geographically?. Religion. What is religion? What are some of the contexts in which religion manifests itself? How do we view religion as geographers (elements that are spatially important)?

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Religion

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  1. Religion How is religion understood geographically?

  2. Religion • What is religion? • What are some of the contexts in which religion manifests itself? • How do we view religion as geographers (elements that are spatially important)? • Where are religions located – hearth, distribution, and diffusion? • http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html • What are practices that lead to distribution?

  3. Religion • How do we view religion as geographers (elements that are spatially important)? • Religious tension in scale: Globalization and local diversity • People care deeply • Derive core values and beliefs • Some religions appeal globally and others locally • How people identify themselves and organize the landscape • Most require strict adherence: turn away from local – how is this different from language?

  4. Universalizing and Ethnic Universalizing Ethnic Appeals to people in a particular place Unknown origin Content highly concentrated in place of origin Followers highly clustered Born in faith and converts not sought Holidays based on local climate and agri. calendars • Attempt to appeal to people throughout the world • Individual historical founder • Message diffused widely • Followers widely distributed • Attempt to convert • Holidays based on founder’s life events

  5. Religion • Monotheistic – belief that there is only one God • Polytheistic – belief in a collection of gods • Animist – objects and events in the environment are “animated” • No separation between physical and spiritual worlds • Indigenous – local and passed on by family and tribe (no shared tenet among groups) • Shamanist – community faith: follow shamans

  6. Religion • Branch – large and fundamental division within a religion • Denomination – division of branch, unites local congregations in admin. Body • Sect – small group broken away from denomination

  7. Buddhist Holy Places:Lumbini, Nepal – Birthplace of Buddha

  8. Dodh Gaya, India – Buddha reaches Enlightenment

  9. Bodh (Bo) Tree Mahayanists Japan Theravadists Cambodia

  10. Leshan Giant Buddha - China

  11. Islamic Holy Places: MeccaAl Harim Al Sharif Mosque- The Ka’ba

  12. Islamic Holy Places: Medina’s mosques

  13. Hindu Holy Places Hierarchy… National Regional/Sectarian Local Mt. Kailas, Source of Ganges (home of Shiva) Ganges River bathing

  14. Holy Places in Conflict: JerusalemChristian Quarter Church of the Holy Sepulchre (mosque next door)

  15. Holy Places in Conflict: JerusalemArmenian Quarter Jaffa Gate and Citadel (built by Romans 2000 years ago) David’s Tower of the Citadel

  16. Holy Places in Conflict: JerusalemMuslim (Arab) Quarter Temple Mountain – Dome of the Rock, Al Aqsa Mosque, Western Wall

  17. Holy Places in Conflict: JerusalemJewish Quarter Western Wall (only remaining section of the Second Temple)

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