Abstract:Research has explored how religious institutions adopt spatial strategies that are informed by secular, neoliberal, and market-based logics to compete for spaces, resources, and adherents (Kong & Woods, 2016). Uniting this research is a focus on confession-based religions, especially those from the Christian tradition, and the competition between different religions or denominations therein. This orientation has led to two theoretical difficulties. First, little attention has been paid to the marginal and prec… Show more
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