Religious Landscapes

Kong, Lily

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“…For the most part, geographical research on sacred structures has focussed on the conflicts associated with the construction of new religious structures (Schmitt 2003;Bauschke 2009), which affect both faith-based as well as secular institutions, or on the significance of religious symbols and structures for the identity of people (Palmer 2002) concentrated in a certain area (Kong 2004;Henn 2008). Sacred structures often reflect the dominance of a specific religion in a given area; in Czechia, the Roman Catholic Church, more than any other denomination, holds such a position.…”

Section: Religion Space Sacred Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This paper draws on traditional cultural geography, principally due to a lack of previous research on sacred structures in Czechia. However, principal ideas from new cultural geography, including the construction of reality through the formation of representation and identity, were taken into account when evaluating the role of sacred structures in the process of formulating rural regional identities and the construction of religious landscapes (Holloway & Valins 2002;Kong 2004;Henkel & Knippenberg 2005;Havlícěk & Hupková 2008;Hupková 2010).…”

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Sacred Structures in the Landscape: The Case of Rural Czechia

Havlíček

Hupková

2013

Scottish Geographical Journal

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This paper examines the development of sacred structures in rural Czechia (former Czechoslovakia). Sacred structures could be associated with the creation of important symbols and distinctive rural regional identities in Czechia. Rural Czechia is not uniform: it represents several different rural landscapes. This paper considers whether sacred structures support the idea of multiple and fundamentally different rural areas existing in Czechia. In rural areas and small municipalities, sacred structures often present the only significant culture feature for a tourist. This research found that most residents of Czechia's rural areas identify with sacred structures, in spite of the fact that representatives of local government often perceive such items as cultural-historical symbols in the landscape rather than religious structures. Five types of rural, religious landscapes were identified, supporting the idea that multiple types of rural areas exist in Czechia.

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Section: Religion Space Sacred Structuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Sacred Structures in the Landscape: The Case of Rural Czechia

Havlíček

Hupková

2013

Scottish Geographical Journal

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“…Venturing into the subterranean Rural Muslims and Sacred Spaces 337 realm is a well-covered theme both in literature (Williams, 2008) and in academia (Garrett, 2011), which appropriates such verbs as 'digging', 'excavating' and 'exposing' in the search for knowledge. Beck (2011), however, calls for more work on understanding the nature of absence in itself and, in response, I examine how 'invisible' spaces are lived religious landscapes (Kong, 2005) in the everyday lives of Muslims in west Wales, negotiating absence and presence.…”

Section: Subterranean Spacesmentioning

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Negotiating Absence and Presence: Rural Muslims and ‘Subterranean’ Sacred Spaces

Jones

2012

Space and Polity

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Rural Muslims' lives have received less attention than those of their urban counterparts in secular liberal democracies. Muslims' experiences of rural regions are characterised by a visible absence on the one hand, but a physical presence on the other. In this paper, the concept of the subterranean is invoked to understand the negotiation between superficial absences and physical presence. Conscious of the clandestine associations of the subterranean, it is argued that this illustrates a tactical making-do with limited resources rather than self-segregation. It is concluded that absences and presence in rural multiculturalism are complex, contingent and have a temporal nature.

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“…Uvádí-li Kongová mezi šesti hlavními výzkumnými tématy nové religiózní geografie vztah společnosti a krajiny, vazby mezi sakrálními a sekulárními objekty, studium společenských skupin a jejich identit, zájem o symbolická a religiózní místa, procesy sakralizace a sakrální zkušenost s náboženskými místy (Kong 1990(Kong , 2004, tematika smrti a následného nakládání s lidskými pozůstatky či ostatky1 úzce souvisí s většinou z nich; autorku to přirozeně vedlo ke koncentraci zájmu na místa posledního odpočinku a jejich aktuální proměny (Kong 1999;srov. také Rugg 2000;Maddrell, Sidaway, eds.…”

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Protestant cemeteries in Czechia: a necrogeographical perspective

Nešpor

2016

Geografie

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The article introduces the field of necrogeography to Czech social geography and provides information on existing (nationwide) data sources. The author takes the issue of Protestant confessional cemeteries as an example, briefly outlines the history of these special types of burial fields (established principally from the end of the 18th century until approximately the mid-20th century), and provides a historical geographical analysis of their regional distribution in the Czech Lands. The article proves the impact of religious and geographical factors on the emergence (and eventual demise) of non-Catholic Christian confessional cemeteries and, at the same time, the research unveiled a number of important research questions to be addressed by Czech necrogeography in the future.

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Religious Landscapes

Cited by 14 publications

References 58 publications

Sacred Structures in the Landscape: The Case of Rural Czechia

Sacred Structures in the Landscape: The Case of Rural Czechia

Negotiating Absence and Presence: Rural Muslims and ‘Subterranean’ Sacred Spaces

Protestant cemeteries in Czechia: a necrogeographical perspective

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