Toward a geography of "Religion": Mapping the distribution of an unstable signifier

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 169-175

  Ivakhiv, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Postmodernity; Religion; Sacred; Social construction; Space

Indexed keywords

RELIGION;

EID: 33644801292     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00505.x     Document Type: Article

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