From locality to location and back again

A spatial journey in the study of religion

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4909421
AutoresK Knott (0000-0003-4869-8113, University of Leeds, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen39
Número2
Páginas154-160
Fecha de publicación2009-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1016/j.religion.2009.01.003
OpenAlexW2074382119
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas25
Referencias citadas16

In this article, in the context of a retrospective examination of my own research journey from locality to location and back again, I argue for the importance and value of studying religion in local perspective, and reconceptualize ‘locality’ from the perspective of a spatial methodology, in recognition of the critiques made of earlier usage and the demands placed on the term in the context of globalization. Using the example of an urban high street, I put a spatially-informed approach to the study of religion in locality to work. I suggest that such an approach counterbalances and challenges the once dominant perspective in Religious Studies that focused on World Religions and saw the places in which they occurred as little more than mere context. A locality-based approach seeks to reconnect religion with other social and cultural fields and to recognise the impact of local particularity on the religious life of an area

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Geography · Globalization · Locality · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Spatial contextual awareness · Value (mathematics) · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces