2011
DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2011.04.05
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Are geographers religiously unmusical? Positionalities in geographical research on religion

Abstract: Although there are indications that more geographers are taking up religion as an area of interest, geography of religion still is a subfield that is not very well developed. In particular, many new cultural geographers seem to shy away from including religion into their research as markers of identity alongside race, class and gender. The article investigates the reasons for this attitude, which has a long history and is connected with the (perceived) contrast between science and religion and the secularizati… Show more

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“…Feminist theories and approaches in several social science disciplines have long neglected the study of religion as a powerful signifier of Otherness and its aspect of oppression (Frankenberry, 2018). This absence is reflected in the field of geography as well, yet religion has gained significance in the last decades, partly because it became a prominent marker of social difference (Henkel, 2011;Hopkins, 2009Hopkins, , 2007Kong, 2010). In recent years, anti-Islamic sentiments and growing Muslim populations seem to have nourished an increased number of studies concerning Muslims in the European context (e.g.…”
Section: Researching Religionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Feminist theories and approaches in several social science disciplines have long neglected the study of religion as a powerful signifier of Otherness and its aspect of oppression (Frankenberry, 2018). This absence is reflected in the field of geography as well, yet religion has gained significance in the last decades, partly because it became a prominent marker of social difference (Henkel, 2011;Hopkins, 2009Hopkins, , 2007Kong, 2010). In recent years, anti-Islamic sentiments and growing Muslim populations seem to have nourished an increased number of studies concerning Muslims in the European context (e.g.…”
Section: Researching Religionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is an increasing amount of research agendas concerning Muslims, many of which are conducted by non-religious researchers (Ryan et al, 2011). This raises questions about positionality (Henkel, 2011;McCutcheon, 1999;Ryan et al, 2011). For example, are those researchers able to understand the interviewees' experiences?…”
Section: Researching Religionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Contributed text 2: provincialising the concept of the secular (Benedikt Korf, Zurich) Until recently, most (critical, leftist) geographers seem to have been "religiously unmusical": consciously or unconsciously, they imagined religion as something out of place in their studies and their radical or progressive politics (Henkel, 2011). Implicit in these imaginations has been a teleological Enlightenment thinking that placed secularism at the endpoint of history, both as a state of a society and as a way of thought.…”
Section: Contributed Text 1: Religious Heterogeneity As An Alternativmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…"religiös musikalisch" (Henkel, 2011) (Tezcan, 2007:68;Schiffauer, 2008). Man möchte, dass die "muslimischen" Gemeinden die an sie herangetragen Vorschläge selber wollen.…”
Section: "Territorien" Der Erfahrung: Die (Post-säkularen)unclassified