RELIGIOUS LANSCAPES IN A PASSAGE TO INDIA
HİNDİSTAN’A BİR GEÇİT ADLI ESERDE DİNİ YERLEMLER

Author : Dilek Tüfekçi CAN
Number of pages : 411-423

Abstract

Race, class, and gender are commonly accepted as the primary axes of analyses across the disciplines of imperialism and (post)colonialism. Within landscapes, they have constituted subjects, as both a priori and problematized categories of analysis. Even though religion has not received the same attention since it has been either reduced to a residual category, or there has been a paucity of research on geographies of religion, over the last two decades there has been a noticeable increase in both conceptual and theoretical criticism to geographies of religion. Accordingly, A Passage to India (1924) by E. M. Forster deserves to be evaluated in terms of geographies of religion for the simple reason that it illustrates a primary focus on religious landscapes, all of which can be said to have been built around threefold

Keywords

Race, Class, Gender, Religious Landscapes, Cultural Geographical Approach

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