James S. Bielo (Miami University, USA), Amos S. Ron (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
How do Christians make relationships with land central to their faith? How have the realities of materiality, geography, and ecology shaped Christian territories of belonging and theologies of territory? What social-economic-political conditions surround exchanges between religion and nature? This book explores how Christianity intersects with nature to create unique religious landscapes. Case studies range from the Mormon Trail across the USA completed by thousands every year, to the Catholic devotional cult of and shrine to St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina. Contributors examine the entangled...
How do Christians make relationships with land central to their faith? How have the realities of materiality, geography, and ecology shaped Christian ...