Global shifts, theoretical shifts: changing geographies of religion

10.1177/0309132510362602Progress in Human Geography346755-77

Lotus international : rivista di architettura

It is a peculiar fact that while the natural environment is one of geography\u27s key research and teaching foci, it is difficult to specify what the discipline\u27s distinctive contributions to environmental understanding are. In part, this is because geographical research on the environment remains theoretically and empirically diverse, indeed fragmented. In turn, this is a function of the fact that the precision of this putative focus is deceptive since the term environment is enormously. On the one side, physical geographers study the environment in their own subdisciplinary languages. On the other side, human geographers apply the tools of everything from Marxism to post-structuralism to make sense of environmental discourses and transformations