A global sense of religious place

The production of religious and spiritual sites through local–global entanglements and global mobilities

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12716975
AutoresEdward Wigley (0000-0001-7429-2286, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume15
Fascículo5
Páginas593-607
Data de publicação2018-06-12
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobalizations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1474-7731 • E-ISSN: 1474-774X
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14747731.2018.1479943
OpenAlexW2808560321
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas36

Places of worship in the Christian tradition are often considered to retain fixed and static identities. However, circuits of globalization and global mobilities are increasingly present within such sites and drawn upon to construct new forms of place and geographies filtered through the individual church’s channels of mobilities. Following on from the new mobilities paradigm and relational approaches to ‘place’, this paper explores how the global and the local become implicated in places of worship. Using participant-observation and diary-interview methods based in Baptist churches in Bristol, UK, and framing the findings through Urry’s framework (Mobilities, Cambridge: Polity, 2007), the research examines the multiple interdependent mobilities of imaginary travel, communication, virtual travel, and corporeal travel. Whilst global mobilities were present within the sites, locality and local mobilities also featured prominently. The combination of interdependent mobilities, produced unique place identities in each of church that engaged with the global yet retained local circuits and community identity

Economic geography · Geography · Globalization · Interdependence · Media studies · Mobilities · Political science · Politics · Polity · Sense of place · Social science · Sociology · The Imaginary · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Psychology · Religious Tourism and Spaces