Transcript Holy Places

Religion
How is religion understood geographically?
Religion
• What is religion?
• What are some of the contexts in which
religion manifests itself?
• How do we view religion as geographers
(elements that are spatially important)?
– Where are religions located – hearth,
distribution, and diffusion?
• http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-ofreligion.html
– What are practices that lead to
distribution?
Religion
• How do we view religion as geographers
(elements that are spatially important)?
• Religious tension in scale: Globalization and local
diversity
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People care deeply
Derive core values and beliefs
Some religions appeal globally and others locally
How people identify themselves and organize the
landscape
Universalizing and Ethnic
Universalizing
• Attempt to appeal to people
throughout the world
• Individual historical founder
• Message diffused widely
• Followers widely distributed
• Attempt to convert
• Holidays based on founder’s
life events
Ethnic
• Appeals to people in a
particular place
• exact origin unknown
• Content highly concentrated
in place of origin
• Followers highly clustered
• Born in faith and converts
not sought
• Holidays based on local
climate and agri. calendars
Religion
– Monotheistic – belief that there is only one God
– Polytheistic – belief in a collection of gods
– Animist – objects and events in the
environment are “animated”
• No separation between physical and spiritual
worlds
– Indigenous – local and passed on by family and
tribe (no shared tenet among groups)
– Shamanist – community faith: follow shamans
Religion
– Branch – large and fundamental division
within a religion
– Denomination – division of branch, unites
local congregations in admin. Body
– Sect – small group broken away from
denomination
Buddhist Holy Places:
Lumbini, Nepal – Birthplace of Buddha
Dodh Gaya, India – Buddha reaches
Enlightenment
Bodh (Bo) Tree
Mahayanists
Japan
Theravadists
Cambodia
Leshan Giant Buddha - China
Islamic Holy Places: Mecca
Al Harim Al Sharif Mosque- The Ka’ba
Islamic Holy Places: Medina’s mosques
Hierarchy…
Hindu Holy Places
National
Regional/Sectarian
Local
Mt. Kailas, Source of Ganges
(home of Shiva)
Ganges River bathing
Holy Places in Conflict: Jerusalem
Christian Quarter
Church of the Holy
Sepulchre – significance
Jesus (mosque next door)
Holy Places in Conflict: Jerusalem
Armenian Quarter
David’s Tower of the Citadel
Jaffa Gate and Citadel (built by
Romans 2000 years ago)
Holy Places in Conflict: Jerusalem
Muslim (Arab) Quarter
Temple Mountain – Dome of the Rock
– built on 2nd temple and where
Muhammad ascends to heaven , Al
Aqsa Mosque
Holy Places in Conflict: Jerusalem
Jewish Quarter
Western Wall (only remaining
section of the Second Temple)
Places of Worship
Religious elements on the landscape
Vatican Basilicas
Basilicas
St Mary’s – Krakow, Poland
Basilica of St. Francis Xavier –
Dryersville, Iowa
Church of St. Patrick – Dungannah, Ireland
Eastern Orthodox - Russian
St. Basil’s Cathedral - Moscow
St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral - Howell (Lakewood), NJ
Eastern Orthodox - Greek
Athens, Greece
Dayton, OH
Coptic Cathedrals –Egypt
Ethiopian Christian Church
Trinity Cathedral – Addis Ababa
Armenian Christian Church
Maronite Christian Church - Lebanon
Buddhist Temples
Temple of Emerald Buddha - Thailand
Tibet
Buddhist Temples
Japan
China
Buddhist Temples
Korea
Nepal
Buddhist Temples
Laos
Burma
Buddhist
Temples
Angkor Wat Temple, the
world's largest religious
monument - Cambodia
Ho Chi Minh City
Buddhist
Temples
Los Angeles
Buddhist
Pagodas
Hindu Temples
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Hindu
Temples
Muslim Mosques
Zahir Mosque,
Malaysia
Sultan Ahmet Mosque
Istanbul
Faisal Mosque
Islamabad, Pakistan
Hagia Sophia
Islamic Holy Places: Mecca
Al Harim Al Sharif Mosque- The Ka’ba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psy9gk5v6Pg
&feature=related (Anthony Bourdain Indonesia
– call to prayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF47Ec5w
BK4&feature=related (journalist in city)