Beyond the “Sigh of the Oppressed Creature”: A Critical Geographical Enquiry into Christianity's Contributions to the Making of a Peaceable West

Boyle, Mark

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“…Recent calls for geographic inquiry into the spiritual have helped to highlight this dearth of scholarship (e.g. Boyle ; Holloway and Valins ), and in turn, emergent studies into the geography of religion have certainly yielded a host of new insights (e.g. Hopkins ; Ivakhiv ; Kong ; Stump ).…”

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Slums, space and spirituality: religious diversity in contemporary Brazil

Garmany¹

2012

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Since the late 1980s, a growing body of academic literature has focused upon the 'evangelicalisation ' of Latin America and other, less affluent world regions (e.g. Africa and Southeast Asia). Valuable for exploring a host of interconnected social, political, economic and cultural practices, this research has consistently pondered the implications of changing religious affiliations and what the effects of these changes might hold for society and space more generally. In Brazil, for example -with more Catholics than any country in the world and a rapidly growing evangelical population -researchers suggest that the country's spiritual shift may bring with it significant political and cultural change, particularly in the impoverished urban communities (i.e. favelas) where evangelical churches are most prominent. While numerous accounts exist to document these changes and reflect upon their potentialities, few geographers, as of yet, have contributed to these debates. Still unknown are the spatial changes that accompany this spiritual shift, the ways that neighbourhoods and cities are changing, and the day-to-day effects of new and syncretistic religious practices. Through a case study of a favela community in northeastern Brazil, this paper considers the socio-spatialities of religious diversity and change within Brazil's contemporary urban landscape.

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Slums, space and spirituality: religious diversity in contemporary Brazil

Garmany¹

2012

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“Co-Agent of the Millennium”: City Planning and Christian Eschatology in the North American City, 1890–1920

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Forsberg

2012

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Cartooning and Googling God and Natural Disasters: Iceland’s Volcanic Eruption and Haiti’s Earthquake

Brunn¹

2012

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One of the sustained threads in geography's disciplinary history is the study of human/environment relationships. Many landmark studies were conducted by those with interests in historical and cultural geography, the same groups that pioneered the study of religion in geography. More recently, the study of religion and religious topics within geography has blossomed with investigations into geopolitics, social practices and institutions, everyday life, and new migration mixes. Studying the religious content in the reporting of natural disasters illustrates one example of a topic where the religion/environment interfaces exist. I examine lead articles or hyperlinks about the January 2010 Haitian earthquake and April 2010 Icelandic volcanic eruption on the Google search engine. I also accessed and deconstructed the religious content of editorial cartoons about both disasters from major cartoon databases. Distinct differences occurred in the hyperlink and cartoon analyses. The leading hyperlinks about Haiti related to the comments Rev. Pat RobeRtson made about the country making a pact with the devil. Fewer were stories about aid and relief efforts. Conservative clerical comments also dominated Google's hyperlinks about Iceland's eruption. Religious cartoons about Haiti's adversity were predominantly about RobeRtson, mostly poking fun at him. The cartoons about Iceland were fewer and displayed more humor. This study suggests additional research topics using hyperlinks and cartoons that would enhance our studies into theological/environmental issues on the Internet as well as visualization.

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Beyond the “Sigh of the Oppressed Creature”: A Critical Geographical Enquiry into Christianity's Contributions to the Making of a Peaceable West

Cited by 3 publications

References 34 publications

Slums, space and spirituality: religious diversity in contemporary Brazil

Slums, space and spirituality: religious diversity in contemporary Brazil

“Co-Agent of the Millennium”: City Planning and Christian Eschatology in the North American City, 1890–1920

Cartooning and Googling God and Natural Disasters: Iceland’s Volcanic Eruption and Haiti’s Earthquake

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