Locating Religions: Contact, Diversity, and Translocality

by Reinhold F. Glei

This collection of articles is an innovative contribution to religious studies, because it picks up concepts developed in the wake of the so-called "spatial turn". Religions are always located in a certain cultural and spatial environment, but often tend to locate (or translocate) themselves beyond that original setting. Also, many religious traditions are not only tied to or associated with the area its respective adherent live in, but are in fact...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004335056
• ISBN13: 9789004335059
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.4"