TY - BOOK ID - 85727361 TI - Locating religions : contact, diversity, and translocality AU - Glei, Reinhold AU - Jaspert, Nikolas PY - 2016 SN - 9004335064 9004335056 PB - Brill DB - UniCat KW - Religion and geography. KW - Geography and religion KW - Geography KW - Religion KW - Comparative religion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85727361 AB - This collection of articles is an innovative contribution to religious studies, because it picks up concepts developed in the wake of the so-called “spatial turn”. Religions are always located in a certain cultural and spatial environment, but often tend to locate (or translocate) themselves beyond that original setting. Also, many religious traditions are not only tied to or associated with the area its respective adherent live in, but are in fact “bi-local” or even “multi-local”, as they closely relate to various spatial centers or plains at once. This spatial diversity inherent to many religions is a corollary to religious diversity or plurality that merits in-depth research. The articles in this volume present important findings from a series of settings within and between Asia and Europe ER -