15th International Conference of Historical Geographers
Prague, Czech Republic
6-10 August 2012
Dean Bond (University of Toronto)
Luise Fischer (University of Edinburgh)
Call for Papers:
Geography and Religion: Investigating the Historical Geographies of a Connection
Geographical thought and religion have long been intertwined, and scholars from various disciplines, including anthropology, geography, sociology and history have investigated the linkages between them. Like geography, religion has been thoroughly located and practised in different ways in different places, despite various religions’ claims to universality. Historians of geography and historical geographers have, however, often neglected religion and its interconnections with local geographical thought and practice, or have only treated religion in passing. This session aims to revisit religion and geography’s enduring ties from an historical perspective. We especially welcome papers that explore the relationship between religion and geography in early modernity and earlier periods. Papers might address themes such as:
- The geography of Enlightenment and religion
- Geographical representations of confessional divisions
- Religious wars and their geographies
- Religion and geography at court
- Missionaries and geographical thought
- The geography of missions
- Theologians and geographical thought
- The Reformation and its geography
Please submit abstracts of 250 words or less to both organisers by 15 December 2011 ([log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]). Abstracts should be in English, as this is the conference language.
For more information on the ICHG 2012, visit http://www.ichg2012.cz/
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