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

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 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 Koyasan; Ian Astley.- Chapter 3.11: Greening the Goddess: Sacred Landscape, History and Legislation on the Camun?i 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.

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 Matlovic, Viera Vlcková and Kvetoslava Matlovicová.- 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. and Lori Carter-Edwards.- 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 So

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.

Stan’s research includes a number of authored, edited, and co-edited books and numerous articles which have appeared in geography and interdisciplinary journals. His most recent books are about Wal-Mart, E-commerce, geography and technology, 9-11, the fifth edition of Cities of the World, an Atlas of the 2008 Elections, an Atlas of Central Eurasia, and a three volume edited work on Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects, which is based on an international and interdisciplinary conference he co-organized in 2008. Recent articles and chapters, many with friends around the country and world, have dealt with the global financial crisis, immobility in rural Appalachia, religion/music interfaces, stamps and state identity, sparsely settled areas, classifying world cities, cognitive mapping of South African students, and North Dakota’s oil boom economies. His current research includes editing a multivolume book on The Changing World Religion Map, which will be published by Springer 2013; it is international in authors, interdisciplinary and also interfaith. Other projects include a co-edited volume on Mapping Across Academia, which has chapters by scholars in the sciences and humanities who use maps and a visually oriented world regional text.

He has taught for short periods in Australia and more than a dozen European and Central Asian countries, including Finland, Sweden, Ireland, Switzerland, Australia, Slovenia, The Netherlands, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iceland, Belgium, South Africa, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and China. In 2007 he was a Fulbright Lecturer at Semey State University in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan and in fall 2009 he was Visiting Professor at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth. He spent his 2010-11 sabbatical year in Ghent, Belgium; Cape Town, South Africa, and Reykjavik, Iceland. He also has been a US election observer in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

During the past four decades he has made many presentations at dozens of national and international conferences. He was elected University of Kentucky Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1989-90. He has been active in the Association of American Geographers, including editor of both The Professional Geographer and the Annals, AAG. He received AAG Honors in 1994, NCGE Mentor Award in 2004 and in 2006 the Lifetime Achievement Award from SEDAAG (Southeast Division, AAG); also he has served on a number of IGU, NCGE and AAG committees, including co-chair of the AAG Centennial Coordinating Committee. During the past two decades he has worked with educators in Kentucky to improve the quality and content of geography instruction in the state’s schools. Among the many highlights of his professional career was his appearance on NBC’s Today Show in 1971 to discuss his proposed political reorganization of the United States.