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Geography and geology: Articles

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  • “Where is Mt. Sinai?” by Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg. The Jerusalem Post, June 5, 2008.
  • “The Geography of Religion in India: Perspectives and Prospects” by Rana P.B. Singh. National Geographical Journal of India. 1992. 38: 27-38.
  • “Religion and geography” by C. Park, Chapter 17 in Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion. J. Hinnells (ed). London: Routledge, 2004.
  • “The Geography of Pilgrimages in India: Perspective and Prospects” by Rana P.B. Singh. National Geographical Journal of India. 1992. 38: 39-54.
  • “Geography of Religion: Where God Lives, Where Pilgrims Walk.” Christian Century, 2006.
  • “Making Mountains Out of Molehills in the Bronze Age Aegean: Visibility, Ritual Kits, and the Idea of a Peak Sanctuary” by Camilla Briault, World Archaeology. 39, no. 1 (2007): 122-41.
  • “Toward a Geography of ‘Religion’: Mapping the Distribution of an Unstable Signifier.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Volume 96, Number 1, pp. 169-175(7). Routledge, 2006.
  • “Mapping the Sacred: Religion, Geography and Postcolonial Literatures.” Literature and Theology. Oxford University Press, 17(2):219-221, 2003.
  • “Geography and religion: trends and prospects” by Lily Kong. Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 14, No. 3, 355-371, 1990.
  • Geology and religion: a historical perspective on current problems. M. Kölbl-Ebert. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, v. 310; p. 1-6, 2009.
  • “Don’t sacrifice the Sacred Headwaters” by Wade Davis. The Globe and Mail (Canada), Oct. 8, 2007.
  • “The one-state delusion; The geography of the Land of Israel/Palestine makes its division into two states a practical nightmare. But the alternative–one binational state–is inconceivable” by Benny Morris. National Post (Canada), May 13, 2009.
  • “Rocking the Science World.” The Gazette (Montreal), July 12, 2008.
  • Yiftachel, Oren and Batya Roded. “Abraham’s Urban Footsteps: Political Geography and Religious Radicalism in Israel/Palestine.” The Fundamentalist City?: Religiosity and the Remaking of Urban Space. Nezar Alsayyad (ed.). Taylor & Francis, 2010.

Geography and geology: Books

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  • Mapping Worlds: International Perspectives on Social and Cultural Geographies. Edited by Rob Kitchin. Routledge; 1 edition, 2007.
  • Moral Geography: Maps, Missionaries, and the American Frontier. Amy DeRogatis. Columbia University Press, 2003.
  • Where the Buddha Walked. A Companion to the Buddhist Places of India. Rana P.B. Singh, 2003. Indica Books, Varanasi. 2nd ed. 2009.
  • Geography of Religion: Where God Lives, Where Pilgrims Walk. John Esposito, Susan Tyler Hitchcock, Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu. National Geographic, 2004.
  • Earth’s Catastrophic Past: Geology, Creation & the Flood by Andrew A. Snelling. Institute for Creation Research, 2009.
  • Mapping the Sacred. Jamie S. Scott and Paul Simpson-Housley. Rodopi, 2001.
  • The Bible, Genesis & Geology: Rightly-Dividing Geology and the Book of Genesis by Gaines R. Johnson, Marti Rieske and Fred DeRuvo. CreateSpace, 2010.
  • The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences. Edward Hitchcock. Boston: Philips, Sampson, and Co., 1852.
  • Rival Jerusalems: The Geography of Victorian Religion. K. D. M. Snell and Paul S. Ell. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • Geology and Religion: A History of Harmony and Hostility. M. Kolbl-Ebert (ed.). Geological Society Of London, 2009.
  • The religion of geology and its connected sciences. Michigan Historical Reprint Series Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 2006.
  • Geology and Revelation: or, the Ancient History of the Earth, Considered in the Light of Geological Facts and Revealed Religion. Gerald Molloy. London: Burns, Oates, and Co., 1873.
  • Religion and Place: Landscape, Politics and Piety. Eds. Peter Hopkins, Lily Kong and Elizabeth Olson. Springer, 2012.

 

Geography and geology: More links

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Geography and geology: Case studies

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  • “A Case Study in the Geography of Religion and Political Voting in Postwar Detroit” by Judith Stepan-Norris and Caleb Southworth. Social Science History, 31(3):343-380, Duke University Press, 2007.
  • Sacred worlds: An introduction to geography and religion. Chris C. Park. Routledge, 1994.
  • “Global shifts, theoretical shifts: Changing geographies of religion” by Lily Kong. Progress in Human Geography. Vol. 34, No. 6 (Dec. 2010): 755-76.
  • Geology and Religion: A History of Harmony and Hostility. M. Kolbl-Ebert (ed.). Geological Society Of London, 2009.
  • Geology and religion: a historical perspective on current problems. M. Kölbl-Ebert. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, v. 310; p. 1-6, 2009.