Kim Knott

The Location of Religion (eBook, PDF)

A Spatial Analysis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a new approach to the study of religion in the West based on a spatial analysis of religious-secular relations. It locates religion within the social, cultural, and physical spaces of the present using a method informed by contemporary spatial theory, particularly the work of Henri Lefebvre.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317313694
• Artikelnr.: 43616297

Autorenporträt

Kim Knott is Professor of Religion and Secular Studies at Lancaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1: The development of a spatial approach to the study of religion
1. Opening up space for the study of religion
2. Religion and Lefebvre's spatial triad
3. Opening up religion for a spatial analysis
4. Religion and space: The scholarly legacy
5. The spatial approach summarised
Part 2: Applying a spatial approach: the case of the left hand
6. The physical, social, and mental space of the right left hand
7. The location of religion within some contemporary left hands
8. Spatial properties, distant left hands, and the field of the religious and the secular
9. Beyond the field? The left, transformation, and the sacred
Conclusion