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- Title
The geographies of religious conversion.
- Authors
Woods, Orlando
- Abstract
The paper reviews the corpus of research that attempts to explain the process of religious conversion, and explores the ways in which geographers can add new perspectives to the discourse. It argues that religious conversion is a phenomenon that goes beyond the reorientation of individual belief, and is instead a process of change that involves the (re)definition of self and other. Five conceptual frames are proposed – (1) conversion of space; (2) spaces of conversion; (3) spaces of negotiation; (4) the (im)mobile convert; and (5) the (dis)embodied convert – which are used to help define the geographies of religious conversion.
- Subjects
HUMAN geography; CONVERSION (Religion); RELIGION &; geography; GEOGRAPHICAL research; GEOGRAPHERS; SPACE
- Publication
Progress in Human Geography, 2012, Vol 36, Issue 4, p440
- ISSN
0309-1325
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0309132511427951