Theography Subject, theology, and praxis in geographies of religion

This paper intervenes in the recent movement in religious geographies to produce more nuanced understandings of the religious subject. By introducing the concept of theography, this paper explores a religious reflexivity that directs subjects towards struggles over the content of theology, its effec...

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Published inProgress in human geography Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 321 - 337
Main Author Sutherland, Callum
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.06.2017
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Classification
Geography
Human geography
Imagination
Mental task performance
Poststructuralism
Reflexivity
Religion
Religious identity
Spatial analysis
Theology
Transcendence
praxis
theology
transcendence
subject
religion
theography
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Summary:This paper intervenes in the recent movement in religious geographies to produce more nuanced understandings of the religious subject. By introducing the concept of theography, this paper explores a religious reflexivity that directs subjects towards struggles over the content of theology, its effects on their spatial imagination, and their praxis. Theography advances conversations about praxis in the geography of religion by tying together poststructural scholarship regarding the religious subject’s potential to subvert abstract categorization, geographies concerning the subject’s reframing of theology, and philosophical contributions vis-à-vis praxes that stem from particular understandings of transcendence.
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ISSN:0309-1325
1477-0288
DOI:10.1177/0309132516644513