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Mapping ‘new’ geographies of religion: politics and poetics in modernity

Lily Kong

Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570

This article reviews geographical research on religion in the 1990s, and highlights work from neighbouring disciplines where relevant. Contrary to views that the field is incoherent, I suggest that much of the literature pays attention to several key themes, particularly, the politics and poetics of religious place, identity and community. I illustrate the key issues, arguments and conceptualizations in these areas, and suggest various ways forward. These ‘new’ geographies emphasize different sites of religious practice beyond the ‘officially sacred’; different sensuous sacred geographies; different religions in different historical and place-specific contexts; different geographical scales of analysis; different constitutions of population and their experience of and effect on religious place, identity and community; different dialectics (sociospatial, public-private, politics-poetics); and different moralities.

Key Words: community • identity • modernity • place • poetics • politics • religion

Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 25, No. 2, 211-233 (2001)
DOI: 10.1191/030913201678580485
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