The book presents a vast array of examples to illustrate the changes that have taken place and have led to a new world map of religions.Beginning with an introduction of the concept of the “changing world religion map”, the book first focuses on nature, ethics and the environment.

VOLUME 1 PART I: INTRODUCTION.- Chapter 1.1: The Changing World Religion Map: Status, Literature and Challenges; Stanley D. Brunn.- PART II: NATURE, ETHICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE.- Chapter 2.1: Nature, Culture and the Quest of the Sacred; Anne Buttimer.- Chapter 2.2: Church, Politics, Faceless Men and the Face of God in Early 21st Century Australia; Mary C. Tehan.- Chapter 2.3: The Island Mystic/que: Seeking Spiritual Connection in a Postmodern World; Laurie Brinklow.- Chapter 2.4: The Spatial Turn in Planetary Theologies: Ambiguity, Hope and Ethical Imposters; Whitney A. Bauman.- Chapter 2.5: The Age of the World Motion Picture: Cosmic Visions in the Post-Earthrise Era; Adrian Ivakhiv.- Chapter 2.6: Weber’s Protestant Ethic Thesis and Ecological Modernization: The Continuing Influence of Calvin’s Doctrine on 21st Century Debates over Capitalism, Nature and Sustainability; Ernest J. Yanarella.- Chapter 2.7: Exploring the Green Dimensions of Islam; Mohammad Aslam Parvaiz.- Chapter 2.8: Making Oneself at Home in Climate Change: Religion as a Skill of Creative Adaptation; Sigurd Bergmann.- Chapter 2.9: Scale-jumping and Climate Change in the Geography of Religion; Michael P. Ferber and Randolph Haluza-DeLay.- Chapter 2.10: All My Holy Mountain: Imaginations of Appalachia in Christian Responses to Mountaintop Removal Mining; Andrew R. H. Thompson.- Chapter 2.11: God, Nature and Society: Views of the Tragedies of Hurricane Katrina and the Asian Tsunami; Janel Curry.- Chapter 2.12: Japanese Buddhism and its Responses to Natural Disasters: Past and Present; Yukio Yotsumoto.- Chapter 2.13: Reshaping the Worldview: Case Studies of Faith Groups’ Approaches to a New Australian Land Ethic; Justin Lawson, Kelly Miller and Geoff Wescott.- Chapter 2.14: “Let My People Grow.” The Jewish Farming Movement: A Bottom-up Approach to Ecological and Social Sustainability; Rachel Berndtson and Martha Geores.- Chapter 2.15: Religious and Moral Hybridity of Vegetarian Activism atFarm Animal Sanctuaries; Timothy Joseph Fargo.- PART III: SACRED SPACES AND PLACES.- Chapter 3.1: Religions and Ideologies; Paul Claval.- Chapter 3.2: Sacred Space and Globalization; Alyson L. Greiner.- Chapter 3.3: Dark Green Religion: Advocating for the Sacredness of Nature in a Changing World; Joseph Witt.- Chapter 3.4: Reinventing Agency, Sacred Geography and Community Formation: The Case of Displaced Kashmiri Pandits in India; Devinder Singh.- Chapter 3.5: Symbiosis in Diversity: The Specific Character of Slovakia’s Religious Landscape; Juraj Majo.- Chapter 3.6: Religion Inscribed in the Landscape: Sacred Sites, Local Deities and Natural Resource Use in the Himalayas; Elizabeth Allison.- Chapter 3.7: Suppression of Tibetan Religious Heritage; P. P. Karan.- Chapter 3.8: Archaeological Approaches to Sacred Landscapes and Rituals of Place Making; Edward Swenson.- Chapter 3.9: Sacred Caves of the World: Illuminating the Darkness; Leslie E. Sponsel.- Chapter 3.10: Space, Time and Heritage on a Japanese Sacred Site: The Religious Geography of Kōyasan; Ian Astley.- Chapter 3.11: Greening the Goddess: Sacred Landscape, History and Legislation on the Cāmuņḍī Hills of Mysore; Caleb Simmons.- Chapter 3.12: Pollution and the Renegotiation of River Goddess Worship and Water Use Practices among the Hindu Devotees of India’s Ganges/Ganga River; Sya Buryn Kedzior.- Chapter 3.13: Privileged Places of Marian Piety in South America; David Pereyra.- Chapter 3.14: The Fleas in God’s Coat: Protestant Monasteries in 20th Century Europe; Linda Pittman.- Chapter 3.15: Cemeteries as a Template of Religion, Non-religion and Culture; Daniel W. Gade.- Chapter 3.16: Visualizing the Dead: Contemporary Cemetery Landscapes; Donald J. Zeigler.- Chapter 3.17: Sacred, Separate Places: African American Cemeteries in the Jim Crow South; Carroll West. VOLUME 2 PART IV: PILGRIMAGE LANDSCAPES AND TOURISM.- Chapter 4.1: Tourism and Religion: Spiritual Journeys and Their Consequences; Noga Collins-Kreiner and Geoffrey Wall.- Chapter 4.2: The Way of Saint James: A Contemporary Geographical Aanalysis; Rubén C. Lois-González, Valerià Paul, Miguel Pazos-Otón, and Xosé M. Santos Solla.- Chapter 4.3: Religious Contents of Popular Guidebooks: The Case of Catholic Cathedrals in South Central Europe; Anton Gosar and Miha Koderman.- Chapter 4.4: Sacred Crossroads: Landscape and Aesthetics in Contemporary Christian Pilgrimage; Veronica della Dora, Avril Maddrell and Alessandro Scafi.- Chapter 4.5: Just Like Magic: Activating Landscape of Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rural Tourism, Iceland; Katrín Anna Lund.- Chapter 4.6: Hindu Pilgrimages: The Contemporary Scene; Rana P. B. Singh and Martin J. Haigh.- Chapter 4.7: A World Religion from a Chosen Land: The Competing Identities of the Contemporary Morman Church; Airen Hall.- Chapter 4.8: Religious Nationalism and Christian Zionist Pilgrimages to Holy Landscapes; Tristan Sturm.- Chapter 4.9: Spaces of Rites and Locations of Risk: The Great Pilgrimage to Mecca; Sven Müller.- Chapter 4.10: Finding the Real America on the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail: Landscapes and Meanings of a Contemporary Secular Pilgrimage; Thomas W. Crawford.- PART V: EDUCATION AND CHANGING WORLDVIEWS.- Chapter 5.1: Geographies of Faith in Education; Peter J. Hemming.- Chapter 5.2: Religion, Education and the State: Rescaling the Confessional Boundaries in Switzerland; Mallory Schneuwly Purdie and Andrea Rota.- Chapter 5.3: Missionary Schools for Children of Missionaries: Juxtaposing Mission Ideals with Children’s Worldviews; John Benson.- Chapter 5.4: The Role of Place and Ideology in the Career Choices of Missionary Children Who Grew up in Tanzania; John Benson.- Chapter 5.5: Evangelical Short Term Missions: Dancing with the Elephant? Lisa La George.- Chapter 5.6: Creating Havens of Westernization in Nigerian Higher Education; Jamaine Abidogun.- Chapter 5.7: Religious Influence on Education and Development in 20th Century Tanzania; Orville Nyblade.- Chapter 5.8: Kansas Versus the Creationists: Religious Conflict and Scientific Controversy in America’s Heartland; Alexander Thomas T. Smith.- Chapter 5.9: Religious and Territorial Identities in a Cosmopolitan City: Youth in Amsterdam; Virginie Mamadouh and Inge van der Welle.- Chapter 5.10: Religiosity in Slovakia after the Social Change in 1989; René Matlovič, Viera Vlčková and Kvetoslava Matlovičová.- Chapter 5.11: Milwaukee Catholicism Intersects with Deindustrialization and White Flight, 1950-1990; Steven M. Avella and Thomas Jablonsky.- Chapter 5.12: The View from Seminary: Using Library Holdings to Measure Christian Seminary Worldviews; Katherine Donohue.- Chapter 5.13: Intersections of Religion and Language Revitalization; Jenny L. Davis.- Chapter 5.14: Bible Translation: Decelerating the Process of Language Shift; Dave Brunn.- Chapter 5.15: Archaeology, the Bible and Modern Faith; John T. Fitzgerald.- PART VI: BUSINESS, FINANCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND LAW.- Chapter 6.1: BeliefWithout faith: The Effect of Business of Religion in Nigeria; Ibrahim Badamasi Lambu.- Chapter 6.2: Economic Development and Cultural Change in Islamic Context: The Malaysian Experience; Samuel Zalanga.- Chapter 6.3: Unveiling Islamic Finance: Economics, Practice and Outcomes; David Bassens.- Chapter 6.4: A Marriage of Convenience? Islamic Banking and Finance Meet Neoliberalization; Michael Samers.- Chapter 6.5: Pious Merchants as Missionaries and the Diffusion of Religions in Indonesia; Chad F. Emmett.- Chapter 6.6: Tithes, Offerings and Sugar Beets: The Economic Logistics of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; J. Matthew Shumway.- Chapter 6.7: Entrepreneurial Spirituality and Community Outreach in African American Churches; James H. Johnson, Jr. and Lori Carter-Edwards.- Chapter 6.8: Environmental Governance, Property Rights and Judeo-Christian Tradition; Kathleen Braden.- Chapter 6.9: The Camel and the Eye of the Needle: Religion, Moral Exchange and Social Impacts; Lucas F. Johnston and Robert H. Wall.- Chapter 6.10: Law and Religion: The Peculiarities of the Italian Model: Emerging Issues and Controversies; Maria Cristina Ivaldi. VOLUME 3 PART VII: GLOBALIZATION, DIASPORAS AND NEW FACED IN THE GLOBAL NORTH.- Chapter 7.1: Four Corners of the Diaspora: A Psychological Comparison of Jewish Continuity in Major Cities in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the United States; Michelle Gezentsvey Lamy.- Chapter 7.2: Global Dispersion of Jews: Determinants and Consequences; Sergio DellaPergola and Ira M. Sheskin.- Chapter 7.3: The Narration of Space: Diaspora Church as a Comfort Zone in the Resettlement Process for Post-communist Bulgarians in Toronto; Mariana Mastagar.- Chapter 7.4: Temples in Diaspora: From Moral Landscapes to Therapeutic Religiosity and the Construction of Consilience in Tamil Toronto; Mark Whitaker.- Chapter 7.5: Golden States of Mind: A Geography of California Consciousness; Erik Davis and Jonathan Taylor.- Chapter 7.6: Lived Experience of Religion: Hindu Americans in Southern California; Shampa Mazumdar and Sanjoy Mazumdar.- Chapter 7.7: Multiscalar Analysis of Religious Geography in the United States; Samuel Otterstrom.- Chapter 7.8: Bible Belt Membership Patterns, Correlates and Landscapes; Gerald R. Webster, Robert H. Watrel, J. Clark Archer, and Stanley D. Brunn.- Chapter 7.9: Transnationalism and the Sôka Gakkai: Perspective and Representation Outside and Inside Japan; Alexandre Benod.- Chapter 7.10: The Place and Role of Alternative Forms of Religiousness in Contemporary Russia; Demyan Belyaev.- Chapter 7.11: The Cow and the Cross: South Asians in Russia and the Russian Christian Orthodox Church; Igor Kotin.- Chapter 7.12: Islam and Buddhism in the Changing Post-Soviet Religious Landscape; Edward C. Holland and Meagan Todd.- Chapter 7.13: Back to the Future: Popular Belief in Russia Today; Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby and Tatiana Filosofova.- Chapter 7.14: The Changing Religious Mosaic of Ukraine; Esther Long Ratajeski.- Chapter 7.15: An Exception in the Balkans: Albania’s Multiconfessional Identity; Peter Jordan.- Chapter 7.16: Social and Spatial Visibility of Religion in Question: The Case of Pluricultural and Multiconfessional France; Lionel Obadia.- Chapter 7.17: “A Most Difficult Assignment”: Mapping the Emergence of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ireland; David J. Butler.- Chapter 7.18: The Multifaith City in an Era of Post-secularism: The Complicated Geographies of Christians, Non-Christians and Non-faithful across Sydney, Australia; Kevin M. Dunn and Awais Piracha.- Chapter 7.19: Russian Rodnoverie: Revisiting Eastern and Western Paganisms; Kaarina Aitamurto.- Chapter 7.20: Evangelical and Pentecostal Churches in Montreal and Paris: Between Local Territories and Global Networks; Frédéric Dejean.- Chapter 7.21: Towards a Catholic North America? Anne Goujon, Éric Caron Malenfant and Vegard Skirbekk.- Chapter 7.22: Changing Geographies of Immigration and Religion in the U.S. South; Patricia Ehrkamp, Caroline Nagel and Catherine Cottrell:.- Chapter 7.23: New Ecclesiologies and New Ecclesio-geographical Challenges: The Emergence of Post-ecclesiological Modernity; Grigorios D. Papathomas.- Chapter 7.24: Hinduism Meets the Global Order: The “Easternization” of the West; Åke Sander and Clemens Cavallin.- PART VIII: GLOBALIZATION, DIASPORAS AND NEW FACED IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH.- Chapter 8.1: The World’s Fastest Growing Religion: Comparing Christian and Muslim Expansion in the Modern Era; Philip Jenkins.- Chapter 8.2: The Emerging Geography of Global Christianity: New Places, Faces and Perceptions; Robert Strauss.- Chapter 8.3: Deterritorialization in Havana: Is There an Alternative Based on the Santería? Yasser Farrés Delgado, Alberto Matarán Ruiz and Yulier Avello Pereiro.- Chapter 8.4: Calling a Trickster Deity a “Bad” Name in Order to Hang it? Deconstructing Indigenous African Epistemologies within Global Religious Maps of the Universe; Afe Adogame.- Chapter 8.5: Christianity in Africa: Pentecostalism and Sociocultural Change in the Context of Neo-liberal Globalization; Samuel Zalanga.- Chapter 8.6: Negotiating Everyday Islam After Socialism: A Study of the Kazakhs of Bayan-Ulgii, Mongolia; Namara Brede, Holly R. Barcus and Cynthia Werner.- Chapter 8.7: How the West was “One” (Hinduism and the Aquarian West); Martin Haigh.- Chapter 8.8: Hinduism and Globalization; Rana P. B. Singh and Mikael Aktor.- Chaper 8.9: The Diasporic Hindu Home Temple; Carolyn V. Prorok.- Chapter 8.10: Liberation Theology in Latin America: Dead or Alive? Thia Cooper.- Chapter 8.11: Africa’s Liberation Theologies: An Historical-hermeneutical Analysis; Gerald West.- Chapter 8.12: Asian Liberation Theologies: An Eco-feminist Approach for a More Equitable and Justice Oriented World; Kathleen Nadeau.- Chapter 8.13: Cuba’s Distinct Religious Traditions: Better Social Changes come oh sooo slowly; Jualynne Dodson.- Chapter 8.14: Global Networks and the Emergent Sites of Contemporary Evangelism; Jeff Garmany and Hannes Gerhardt.- Chapter 8.15: Legacy of a Minority Religion: Christians and Christianity in Contemporary Japan; Christina Ghanbarpour.- Chapter 8.16: The Chinese Church: A Post-denominational Reality? Chloë Starr.- Chapter 8.17: Protestant Christianity in China, Urban and Rural: Negotiating the State and Propagating the Faith; Teresa Zimmerman-Liu and Teresa Wright.- Chapter 8.18: Analysis of the Emergence of Missionary Territorial Strategies in a Mexican Urban Context; Renée de la Torre Castellanos and Cristina Gutiérrez Zuñiga. VOLUME 4 PART IV: SECULARIZATION.- Chapter 9.1: Secularization and Transformation of Religion in Post-war Europe; Hans Knippenberg.- Chapter 9.2: Visualizing Secularization through Changes in Religious Stamp Issues in Three Catholic European Countries; Stanley D. Brunn.- Chapter 9.3: Demographic Forces Shaping the Religious Landscape of Vienna; Anne Goujon and Ramon Bauer.- Chapter 9.4: Secularization in Mexico City as a Constant, Current Paradigm; Armando Garcia Chiang.- Chapter 9.5: Secularization and Church Property: The Case of Czechia; Martina Hupková, Tomáš Havlíček and Daniel Reeves.- Chapter 9.6: Indian Secular Nationalism Versus Hindu Nationalism in the 2004 General Elections; Igor Kotin.- Chapter 9.7: Atheist Geographies and the Geographies of Atheism; Barney Warf.- Chapter 9.8: Representing the Unrepresentable: Towards a Strong Cultural Geography of Spirituality; Justin Wilford.- Chapter 9.9: Postsecular Stirrings? Geographies of Rapprochement and Crossover Narratives in the Contemporary City; Paul Cloke.- Chapter 9.10: Faith Islands in Hedonopolis: Ambivalent Adaptation in Las Vegas; Rex J. Rowley.- Chapter 9.11: Marketing Religion and Church Shopping: Does one Size fit All? Stanley D. Brunn, Wesley Jetton and Barbara Palmquist.- PART X: MEGACHURCHES AND ARCHITECTURE.- Chapter 10.1: Sacred Ambitions, Global Dreams: Inside the Korean Megachurch Phenomenon; Mike Bégin and Caleb Kwang-Eun Shin.- Chapter 10.2: Megafaith for the Megacity: The Global Megachurch Phenomenon; Scott L. Thumma and Warren Bird.- Chapter 10.3: Houston Mosques: Space, Place and Religious Meaning; Akel Ismail Kahera and Bakama BakamaNume.- Chapter 10.4: Sacred Place-making: The Presence and Quality of Archetypal Design Principles in Sacred Place; Arsenio Rodrigues.- Chapter 10.5: Reinventing Muslim Space in Suburbia: The Salaam Centre in Harrow, North London; Claire Dwyer.- Chapter 10.6: Islam and Urbanism in Indonesia: The Mosque as Urban Identity in Javanese Cities; Hafid Setiadi.- Chapter 10.7: The Catholic Church and Neo-Gothic Architecture in Latin America: Scales for their Analysis; Martín M. Checa-Artasu.- Chapter 10.8: Changing Russian Orthodox Landscapes in Post-Soviet Moscow; Dmitrii Sidorov.- PART XI: CULTURE: MUSEUMS, DRAMA, FASHION, FOOD, MUSIC, SPORTS AND SCIENCE FICTION.- Chapter 11.1: The Nature Theatres of the Occult Revival: Performance and Modern Esoteric Religions; Edmund B. Lingan.- Chapter 11.2: Affect, Medievalism and Temporal Drag: Oberammergau’s Passion Play Event; Jill Stevenson.- Chapter 11.3: Windows on the Eternal: Spirituality, Heritage and Interpretation in Faith Museums; Margaret Gold.- Chapter 11.4: The Creationist Tales: Understanding a Postmodern Museum Pilgrimage; Jeffrey Steller.- Chapter 11.5: The Religious Exhibition at the Capital Museum in Beijing: What it Tells Us and Does Not Tell Us; Shangyi Zhou and Stanley D. Brunn.- Chapter 11.6: Islam on the Catwalk: Marketing Veiling-fashion in Turkey; Banu Gökarıksel and Anna J. Secor.- Chapter 11.7: Fashion, Shame and Pride: Constructing the Modest Fashion Industry in Three Faiths; Reina Lewis.- Chapter 11.8: Putting Christian Congregational Song on the Geographer’s Map; Andrew M. McCoy and John D. Witvliet.- Chapter 11.9: Tracing the Migration of a Sacred/Secular Tune Across Tunebooks and its Traditions in Evangelical 19th Century America: “The Peacock” Variations; Nikos Pappas.- Chapter 11.10: Landscapes and Soundscapes: How Place shapes Christian Congregational Song; C. Michael Hawn.- Chapter 11.11: Streams of Song: The Landscape of Christian Spirituality in North America; C. Michael Hawn.- Chapter 11.12: Streams of Song: Developing a New Hymnal for the Presbyterian Church (USA); Beverly Howard.- Chapter 11.13: “Tune Your Hearts with One Accord”: Compiling Celebrating Grace, a Hymnal for Baptists in English-speaking North America; David W. Music.- Chapter 11.14: The Musical Shape of Cultural Assimilation in the Religious Practice of Pennsylvania-Dutch Lutherans; Daniel Jay Grimminger.- Chapter 11.15: Understanding Churchscapes: Theology, Geography and Music of the Closed Brethren in Germany; Friedlind Riedel and Simon Runkel.- Chapter 11.16: The Bible, the Hymns and Identity: The Prophet Isaiah Shembe and the Hymns of his Nazareth Baptist Church; Nkosinathi Sithole.- Chapter 11.17: Music as Catechesis and Cultural Transformation in the East African Revival; Anna Swynford.- Chapter11.18: Zen Buddhism and Music: Spiritual Shakuhachi Tours to Japan; Kiku Day.- Chapter 11.19: The Festival of World Sacred Music: Creating a Destination for Tourism, Spirituality, and the Other; Deborah Justice.- Chapter 11.20: More Than Meets the Ear: The Agency of Hindustani Music in the Lives and Careers of John Coltrane and George Harrison; Kevin Kehrberg.- Chapter 11.21: Eating, Drinking and Maintenance of Community: Jewish Dietary Laws and the Effects on Separateness; Stanley Waterman.- Chapter 11.22: The Shrines of Sport: Sacred Space and the World’s Athletic Venues; Arthur Remillard.- Chapter 11.23: Religion’s Future and the Future’s Religions Through the Lens of Science Fiction; James F. McGrath.- PART XII: ORGANIZATIONS.- Chapter 12.1: Global Reach and Global Agenda: The World Council of Churches; Katharina Kunter.- Chapter 12.2: Religious Presence in the Context of the United Nations Organization: A Survey; Karsten Lehmann.- Chapter 12.3: Preparing Professional Interculturalists for Interfaith Collaboration; Naomi Ludeman Smith.- Chapter 12.4: Multifaith Responses to Global Risks; Anna Halafoff.- Chapter 12.5: Effecting Environmental Change: The Challenges of Transnational Environmental Faith-based Organizations; Deborah Lee and Lily Kong.- Chapter 12.6: Mapping Methodism: Migration, Diversity and Participatory Research in the Methodist Church in Britain; Lia Dong Shimada and Christopher Stephens.- Chapter 12.7: Territoriality and the Muslim Spiritual Boards of Post-Soviet Russia; Matthew A. Derrick.- Chapter 12.8: A Needs-based GIS Approach to Accessibility and Location Efficiency of Faith-based Social Programs; Jason E. VanHorn and Nathan A. Mosurinjohn.- Chapter 12.9: Welcome the Stranger or Seal the borders? Conflicting Religious Responses to Migrants; Thia Cooper.- Chapter 12.10: Evangelical Geopolitics: Practices of Worship, Justice and Peacemaking; Nick Megoran.- Chapter 12.11: From the Church of the Powerful to the Church of the Poor: LiberationTheology and Catholic Praxis in the Philippines; William Holden.- Chapter 12.12: Faith Based Organizations and International Responses to Forced Migration; Sarah Deardorff Miller. VOLUME 5 PART XIII: IDENTITY, GENDER AND CULTURE.- Chapter 13.1: Islam and Assisted Reproduction in the Middle East: Comparing the Sunni Arab World, Shia Iran and Secular Turkey; Zeynep B. Gürtin, Marcia C. Inhorn and Soraya Tremayne.- Chapter 13.2: The Perpetration of Abuse in Intimate Relationships: Does Religion Make a Difference? Claire M. Renzetti, Amy Messer, C. Nathan DeWall, and Richard Pond.- Chapter 13.3: Chinese Hui Muslim Pilgrims – Back Home from Mecca: Negotiating Identity and Gender, Status and Afterlife; Maria Jaschok and Shui Jingjun.- Chapter 13.4: The Freedom of Wandering, the Protection of Settling in Place: Gendered Symbolizations of Space in the Practices of Hindu Renouncers in Rajasthan; Antoinette E. DeNapoli.- Chapter 13.5: Religious Identity and Gender on the Edges of the Nation: The Leh District of India’s Jammu and Kashmir State; Sara Smith.- Chapter 13.6: Zooming-in on Terms and Spaces: Women’s Perspectives and Cognitive Mapping in a West Bank Settlement; Hannah Mayne.- Chapter 13.7: The Geography of Jewish Intermarriage in Five U.S. Urban Areas; Bruce Phillips.- Chapter 13.8: The Transnational Debate over Homosexuality in the Anglican Communion; Robert M. Vanderbeck, Joanna Sadgrove, Gill Valentine, Johan Andersson and Kevin Ward.- Chapter 13.9: Religion and State in Marriage, Cohabitation and Civil Partnership: Examples, Typologies and Contestations from the United Kingdom; Paul G. Weller.- Chapter 13.10: Religion and Attitudes Towards Gay Rights in Northern Ireland: The God Gap Revisited; Bernadette C. Hayes and Lizanne Dowds.- Chapter 13.11: Moral Hazard: Governing Culture and the Localized Christian Right Gay Panic in Indiana; Christopher A. Airriess.- Chapter 13.12: Geographic Support for the Ordination of Same Sex Clergy by American Lutheran and Presbyterian Denominations; Bradley C. Rundquist and Stanley D. Brunn.- PART XIV: POLITICS, RECONCILIATION AND ADVOCACY.- Chapter 14.1: Are High Levels of Existential Security Conducive to Secularization? A Response to Our Critics; Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart.- Chapter 14.2: The Religious Context in Political Place-making; Herman van der Wusten.- Chapter 14.3: The Geography of Religious Freedom; Daniel McGowin and Gerald R. Webster.- Chapter 14.4: Geographies of Cosmic War: Comparing Secular and Religious Terrorism in Space and Time; Steven M. Radil and Colin Flint.- Chapter 14.5: A Content Analysis of Session-opening Prayers in the U.S. Congress; Fred M. Shelley.- Chapter 14.6: Political Pilgrimages: American Presidents and Religious Communities, 1933-2012; Kevin Coe, David Domke and Anthony Schmidt.- Chapter 14.7: Walking on the Razor’s Edge: Religious Groups and the Arab 2011 Spring; Ghazi-Walid Falah and Laura J. Khoury.- Chapter 14.8: The Role of Religion in the Formation ofa New State on the World Map: South Sudan; Rainer Rothfuss and Yakubu Joseph.- Chapter 14.9: Quaker Lobbying on Behalf of the New START Treaty in 2010: A Window into the World of the Friends Committee on National Legislation; Stephen W. Angell.- Chapter 14.10: Interpreting the Transforming Geographic Mosaic of Religion in America: The Impact of Congressional Representation and Increasing Political Polarization; Josiah R. Baker.- Chapter 14.11: Interfaith Advocacy Groups in American Politics; Katherine Knutson.- Chapter 14.12: The Election of a Lesbian Mayor in a Religiously Conservative City: The Case of Houston, Texas; Nancy Palmer Stockwell and Ira M. Sheskin.- Chapter 14.13: Moral Imperatives: Faith-based Approaches to Human Trafficking; Martha Bettis Gee and Ryan D. Smith.- Chapter 14.14: Violence, Tolerance and Religious Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland; John D. Brewer and Francis Teeney.- Chapter 14.15: Religion, Space and Peace in Sri Lanka: Transforming Spaces of Freedom Threatened by Violence into Islands of Civility; Shirley Lal Wijesinghe.- Chapter 14.16: Religion and the Social Reconstruction of Memory Amid Violence in Bojayá, Chocó (Colombia): Creating Transitional Justice from Below: Sandra Rios Oyola.- Chapter 14.17: From Nasser’s Revolution to the Fall of the Muslim Brotherhood; Seif Da'Na.- PART XV: VIRTUAL WORLDS AND THE VISUAL MEDIA.- Chapter 15.1: A Breath of Narcissism: Hollywood as Proselytizer of Secular Religion; C. K. Robertson.- Chapter 15.2: Towards a Virtual Geography of Religion; Paul Emerson Teusner.- Chapter 15.3: The Creation of Secularist Space on the Internet; Christopher Smith and Richard Cimino.- Chapter 15.4: Technology and the Changing Geography of Religious Media; Thomas A. Wikle.- Chapter 15.5: Introducing the Study of Religion at The Open University: The Scope and Limitations of a Distance Learning Approach to the Study of Religions; Gwilym Beckerlegge.- Chapter 15.6: Facebook gets Religion: Fund-raising by Religious Organizations on Social Networks; Mark D. Johns.- Chapter 15.7: My (Second) Life’s Mission: Landscapes of Virtual Reality Proselytization; Andrew Boulton.- Chapter 15.8: Christianity and Digital Media; Tim Hutchings.- Chapter 15.9: The People of the Nook: Jewish Use of the Internet; Ira Sheskin and Micah Liben.- Chapter 15.10: Mapping Japanese Religions on the Internet; Danilo Giambra and Erica Baffelli.- Chapter 15.11: Virtual Buddhism: Online Communities, Sacred Places and Objects; Louise Connelly.- Chapter 15.12: German-based Cyber-Da’wah 2.0: Back to the Roots with Forward Technology; Erik Munder.- Chapter 15.13: The “Almost” Territories of the Charismatic Christian Internet; Anna Rose Stewart.- Chapter 15.14: Christian-Atheist Billboard Wars in the United States; Daniel H. Olsen.

This extensive work explores the changing world of religions, faiths and practices. It discusses a broad range of issues and phenomena that are related to religion, including nature, ethics, secularization, gender and identity. Broadening the context, it studies the interrelation between religion and other fields, including education, business, economics and law. The book presents a vast array of examples to illustrate the changes that have taken place and have led to a new world map of religions.Beginning with an introduction of the concept of the “changing world religion map”, the book first focuses on nature, ethics and the environment. It examines humankind’s eternal search for the sacred, and discusses the emergence of “green” religion as a theme that cuts across many faiths. Next, the book turns to the theme of the pilgrimage, illustrated by many examples from all parts of the world. In its discussion of the interrelation between religion and education, it looks at therole of missionary movements. It explains the relationship between religion, business, economics and law by means of a discussion of legal and moral frameworks, and the financial and business issues of religious organizations. The next part of the book explores the many “new faces” that are part of the religious landscape and culture of the Global North (Europe, Russia, Australia and New Zealand, the U.S. and Canada) and the Global South (Latin America, Africa and Asia). It does so by looking at specific population movements, diasporas, and the impact of globalization. The volume next turns to secularization as both a phenomenon occurring in the Global religious North, and as an emerging and distinguishing feature in the metropolitan, cosmopolitan and gateway cities and regions in the Global South. The final part of the book explores the changing world of religion in regards to gender and identity issues, the political/religious nexus, and the new worlds associated with the virtual technologies and visual media.

Covers important, yet heretofore understudied issues in regional and global contexts Offers a unique collection of essays that examine the contemporary global religious scene Brings together junior and senior scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and religious studies Addresses new and cutting-edge perspectives at the religion and geography interfaces

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