Michael P Ferber

Biographic Data

ID5232821
NAMEMichael P Ferber
GIVEN NAMESMichael P
FAMILY NAMEFerber
SIGNATUREFERBER M P
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Geography The King’s University College, 9125-50 Street, Edmonton, Alberta T6B 2H3, Canada
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • Poetry and Language

    Michael Ferber, Michael P FerberBOOKPoetry and Language2019

  • Critical Realism and Emergence in a Scaled Geography of Religion

    Michael Ferber, Michael P Ferber et al.ARTICLEJournal of Critical Realism2013

    Scale is a contested concept in human geography fostering debates and contestation that have escalated to the point where some have argued for the term to be expunged from the geographical lexicon. Yet, despite the importance of scale in the geography of religion, the scalar debates in human geography have only rarely penetrated the conceptual base of the sub-discipline. This article addresses the scale debate through a case study of adherents in…

  • Watching Avatar from “AvaTar Sands” Land

    Randolph Haluza-Delay, Randolph Haluza‐delay et al.CHAPTERAvatar and Nature Spirituality2013

  • Peng’s Proposal for Special Religious Zones in China

    Open AccessMichael Ferber, Michael P FerberARTICLESociology and Anthropology2013References: 5

    This article discusses the potential of special religious zones to enhance social harmony in China and serve as ‘useful opium’. Liu Peng has suggested that special religious zones could be created in the same way that special economic zones helped to open China to free economic markets. These special religious zones would encompass a geographical region in which the country's typical or national laws would be modified as a type of social experime…

  • Critical Realism and Religion

    Michael Ferber, Michael P FerberARTICLEAnnals of the Association of…2006Cited by: 8References: 14

    This article uses the insider/outsider problem in the study of religion and a critical realist interpretation of objectivity to discuss two dialectics present in geography of religion literature: geography of religion versus religious geography, and politics versus poetics. Recent developments in critical realism include a “spiritual turn” in which critical realism as both a metaphilosophy and a method is applied to religious thought. A critical …