Religion

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Religion

• How do we view religion as geographers?

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• Hindu death ritual
• Hindu pilgrimage
• Christian pilgrimage
• Religious Architecture

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Religion

• What is religion?
• What are some of the contexts in which religion
  manifests itself?
• Why do religions organize space in distinctive
  patterns?
• How do we view religion as geographers (elements
  that are spatially important)?
• Where are religions located hearth,
  distribution, and diffusion?
• Map of Religious Diffusion
• What are practices that lead to distribution?

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Religion

• How is religion seen on the cultural landscape?
• Religious tension in scale Globalization and
  local diversity
• Interfaith/intrafaith
• People care deeply
• Derive core values and beliefs
• How people identify themselves and organize the
  landscape
• Some religions appeal globally and others locally

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Universalizing and Ethnic

• Universalizing

• Ethnic

• Attempt to appeal to people throughout the world
• Individual historical founder
• Message diffused widely
• Followers widely distributed
• Attempt to convert
• Holidays based on founders life events

• 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

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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

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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

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Buddhist Holy PlacesLumbini, Nepal Birthplace
of Buddha
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Dodh Gaya, India Buddha reaches Enlightenment
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Bodh (Bo) Tree
Mahayanists Japan
Theravadists Cambodia
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Leshan Giant Buddha - China
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Haeinsa Temple Janggyeong Panjeon on Mount Gaya
(802 CE)
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Tripitaka Koreana or Palman Daejanggyeong
1236-1251 CE (destroyed 1232) scriptures carved
on 81,000 blocks
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The Seokguram Grotto The Temple of Bulguksa
774 CE
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Islamic Holy Places MeccaAl Harim Al Sharif
Mosque- The Kaba
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Islamic Holy Places Medinas mosques
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Hindu Holy Places

Mt. Kailas, Source of Ganges (home of Shiva)
Ganges River bathing
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Jewish sacred sites

• Israel Itself

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Jewish sacred sites

• Jerusalem and the Wailing Wall

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Places of Worship

• Religious elements on the landscape

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Vatican Basilicas
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Basilicas
Basilica of St. Francis Xavier Dryersville, Iowa
St Marys Krakow, Poland
Church of St. Patrick Dungannah, Ireland
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Eastern Orthodox - Russian
St. Basils Cathedral - Moscow
St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral - Howell
(Lakewood), NJ
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Eastern Orthodox - Greek
Athens, Greece
Dayton, OH
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Coptic Cathedrals Egypt
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Ethiopian Christian Church
Trinity Cathedral Addis Ababa
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Armenian Christian Church
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Maronite Christian Church - Lebanon
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Buddhist Temples
Temple of Emerald Buddha - Thailand
Tibet
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Buddhist Temples
Japan
China
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Buddhist Temples
Korea
Nepal
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Buddhist Temples
Laos
Burma
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Buddhist Temples
Angkor Wat Temple, the world's largest religious
monument - Cambodia
Ho Chi Minh City
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Buddhist Temples
Los Angeles
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Buddhist Pagodas
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Hindu Temples
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Hindu Temples
Pittsburgh
Chicago
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Jewish Synagogues
Florence
Serbia
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Muslim Mosques
Zahir Mosque, Malaysia
Sultan Ahmet MosqueIstanbul
Faisal MosqueIslamabad, Pakistan
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Hagia Sophia
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Islamic Holy Places MeccaAl Harim Al Sharif
Mosque- The Kaba
The Hajj
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• Call to Prayer

• Beautiful Synagogues Mosques

• Anthony Bourdain Indonesia call to prayer
• journalist in city - Call to Prayer

• Beautiful Synagogues and Mosques

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Holy Places in Conflict JerusalemChristian
Quarter
Church of the Holy Sepulchre significance Jesus
(Mosque of Omar next door)
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Holy Places in Conflict JerusalemArmenian
Quarter
Jaffa Gate and Citadel (built by Romans 2000
years ago)
Davids Tower of the Citadel
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Holy Places in Conflict JerusalemMuslim (Arab)
Quarter
Temple Mountain Dome of the Rock built on 2nd
Jewish Temple and where Muhammad ascends to
heaven
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Holy Places in Conflict JerusalemJewish Quarter
Western Wall (only remaining section of the
Second Temple)