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What is spiritual geography? (Geographical Record)

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From: The Geographical Review
Date: 19931001
Author:Henderson, Martha L.

The publication of two books with the term spiritual geography in their subtitles indicates some measure of broad public interest in geography and provides an opportunity to speculate about the implications for the discipline. The two books are "Beliefs and Holy Places: A Spiritual Geography of the Pimeria Alta," by James S. Griffin (1992) and "Dakota: A Spiritual Geography," by Kathleen Norris (1993). Reviews of the two books appeared in the New York Times. The publicity thus given to popular, intellectually stimulating books subtitled geography cannot be overlooked by ...

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