religion how is religion understood geographically?
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Religion
How is religion understood geographically?
Religion• What is religion?• What are some of the contexts in which
religion manifests itself?• How do we view religion as
geographers (elements that are spatially important)?–Where are religions located – hearth,
distribution, and diffusion?• http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion
.html
–What are practices that lead to distribution?
Religion• How do we view religion as geographers
(elements that are spatially important)?• Religious tension in scale: Globalization and local
diversity• People care deeply• Derive core values and beliefs• Some religions appeal globally and others locally• How people identify themselves and organize the
landscape
Universalizing and Ethnic
Universalizing• Attempt to appeal to people
throughout the world• Individual historical founder• Message diffused widely
• Followers widely distributed• Attempt to convert
• Holidays based on founder’s life events
Ethnic• Appeals to people in a
particular place• exact origin unknown• Content highly
concentrated in place of origin
• Followers highly clustered• Born in faith and converts
not sought• Holidays based on local
climate and agri. calendars
Religion–Monotheistic – belief that there is only one
God – Polytheistic – belief in a collection of gods– Animist – objects and events in the
environment are “animated”• No separation between physical and
spiritual worlds– Indigenous – local and passed on by family
and tribe (no shared tenet among groups)– Shamanist – community faith: follow
shamans
Religion
– Branch – large and fundamental division within a religion
– Denomination – division of branch, unites local congregations in admin. Body
– Sect – small group broken away from denomination
Buddhist Holy Places:Lumbini, Nepal – Birthplace of Buddha
Dodh Gaya, India – Buddha reaches Enlightenment
Bodh (Bo) Tree
Mahayanists Japan
Theravadists Cambodia
Leshan Giant Buddha - China
Islamic Holy Places: MeccaAl Harim Al Sharif Mosque- The Ka’ba
Islamic Holy Places: Medina’s mosques
Hindu Holy Places
Mt. Kailas, Source of Ganges
(home of Shiva)
Ganges River bathing
Hierarchy…
National
Regional/Sectarian
Local
Holy Places in Conflict: JerusalemChristian Quarter
Church of the Holy Sepulchre – significance Jesus (mosque next door)
Holy Places in Conflict: JerusalemArmenian Quarter
David’s Tower of the Citadel
Jaffa Gate and Citadel (built by Romans 2000 years ago)
Holy Places in Conflict: JerusalemMuslim (Arab) Quarter
Temple Mountain – Dome of the Rock – built on 2nd temple and where Muhammad ascends to heaven , Al Aqsa Mosque
Holy Places in Conflict: Jerusalem
Jewish Quarter
Western Wall (only remaining section of the Second Temple)
Places of Worship
Religious elements on the landscape
Vatican Basilicas
Basilicas
St Mary’s – Krakow, Poland
Church of St. Patrick – Dungannah, Ireland
Basilica of St. Francis Xavier – Dryersville, Iowa
Eastern Orthodox - Russian
St. Basil’s Cathedral - Moscow
St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral - Howell (Lakewood), NJ
Eastern Orthodox - Greek
Athens, Greece
Dayton, OH
Coptic Cathedrals –Egypt
Ethiopian Christian Church
Trinity Cathedral – Addis Ababa
Armenian Christian Church
Maronite Christian Church - Lebanon
Buddhist Temples
Temple of Emerald Buddha - Thailand
Tibet
Buddhist Temples
China
Japan
Buddhist Temples
Korea Nepal
Buddhist Temples
Burma
Laos
Buddhist Temples
Angkor Wat Temple, the world's largest
religious monument - Cambodia
Ho Chi Minh City
Buddhist Temples
Los Angeles
Buddhist Pagodas
Hindu Temples
Hindu Temples
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Muslim Mosques
Zahir Mosque,
Malaysia
Faisal MosqueIslamabad, Pakistan
Sultan Ahmet MosqueIstanbul
Hagia Sophia
Islamic Holy Places: MeccaAl Harim Al Sharif Mosque- The Ka’ba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psy9gk5v6Pg&feature=related (Anthony Bourdain Indonesia – call to prayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF47Ec5wBK4&feature=related (journalist in city)