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Preferred term
geography and religion
Definition
- The geography of religion is a substantial subdiscipline of human geography that provides significant insight into the breadth and depth of religious traditions in their multifaceted contexts. The geography of religion involves the spatial study of religious systems and phenomena and includes a robust array of themes at numerous scales, including, but not limited to, religious diffusion, religious distributions, religious regions, religious diversity, religious fundamentalism, sacred space, religious landscapes, religion and the environment, and more recent developments in critical human geography. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Religion, Geography and]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/geography_and_religion
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