Foreword, Kim Knibbe (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
1. Introduction, Amos S. Ron (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel) and James S. Bielo (Miami University, USA)
PART I: Destinations
2. Holy Quarter: Reshaping Urban Landscapes of Yekaterinburg in Post-Secular Russia, Jeanne Kormina (National Research University, Russia)
3. Galactic Shrines and the Catholic Cult of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, Michael Di Giovine (West Chester University, USA)
4. Domesticating the Landscape and Healing the Physical and Social Body at Lourdes, John Eade (Roehampton University, UK)
5. Crucifix and Dirt: Catholic and Indigenous Origins of the Holy Earth of the Santuario de Chimayo, Brett Hendrickson (Lafayette College, USA)
6. “A Lineal Temple”: Pilgrimage and Sacred Space in Contemporary Mormonism, Sara M. Patterson (Hanover College, USA)
PART II: Temporalities
7. From the Gods’ Mountains to the Messiah’s Glade: Christian Landscapes of Africa and Asia, Jonathan Miles-Watson (Durham University, UK) and Sitna Quiroz (Durham University, UK)
8. Geography as Eschatology: Moral Freedom and Prophecy Fulfilment on Land and at Sea, Joseph Webster (Queen’s University-Belfast, UK)
9. Imagining an Ethnic Ecumene: Evangelical Landscapes as Gentile, Jewish, and Native American, Rebekka King (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
PART III: Transformations
10. Landscape as Expressive Resource in Biblical Themed Environments, James S. Bielo (Miami University, USA)
11. When Mountains Move: Sacred Performance and Overlapping Topographies in Athonite Processions, Veronica della Dora (Royal Holloway-University of London, UK)
12. The Landscape of Sacred Groves in the New Testament: The Mt. of Beatitudes, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Garden Tomb, Amos S. Ron (Ashkelon Academic College, Israel)
Afterword, Simon Coleman (University of Toronto, Canada)
Bibliography
Index

Religions, spiritualities and mysticisms are deeply implicated in processes of place-making. These include political and geopolitical spaces, local and national spaces, urban spaces, global and virtual spaces, contested spaces, spaces of performance, spaces of memory and spaces of confinement. At the leading edge of theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary innovation in the study of religion, Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place brings together and gives shape to the study of such processes.

These places are not defined simply by the material or the physical but also by the sensual and the psychological, by the ways in which spaces are gendered, classified, stratified, moved through, seen, touched, heard, interpreted and occupied. Places are constituted through embodied practices that direct critical and analytical attention to the spatial production of insides, outsides, bodies, landscapes, cities, sovereignties, publics and interiorities.