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Book review: Keisuke Matsui, Geography of Religion: Religious Space, Landscape, and Behaviour

Book review: Keisuke Matsui, Geography of Religion: Religious Space, Landscape, and Behaviour 594749 TOU0010.1177/1468797615594749Tourist StudiesBook review research-article2015 ts Tourist Studies 2016, Vol. 16(3) 337 –339 Book review © The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1468797615594749 tou.sagepub.com Keisuke Matsui, Geography of Religion: Religious Space, Landscape, and Behaviour, Tokyo, Japan: Springer, 2014, 199 pp., hardcover, €106.99, ISBN 9784431545491 Reviewed by: Diana Soeiro, IFILNOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av Berna, 26 4º piso, 1069–061 Lisboa, Portugal According to Matsui (University of Tsukuba, Japan), geography of religion exceeds the framework of cultural geography, having also to consider political, economic, social and psychological aspects (p. 1). Likewise, this means that in order to reflect on the function of religion, we must examine it in the context of local societies. This book proves to be an example of this methodology, pointing to the future of what geography of religion will be. As any good geographer would do, the book’s first chapter is a map that allows us to orient ourselves in Matsui’s approach, presenting us the past and present trends of geo- graphical studies of religion in Japan, in a four-fold manner: (1) relationships between the natural environment and religion; (2) how religion influences social structures, organizations and landscapes in local areas; (3) pilgrimage; and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tourist Studies: An International Journal SAGE

Book review: Keisuke Matsui, Geography of Religion: Religious Space, Landscape, and Behaviour

Soeiro, Diana
Tourist Studies: An International Journal , Volume 16 (3): 3 – Sep 1, 2016
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594749 TOU0010.1177/1468797615594749Tourist StudiesBook review research-article2015 ts Tourist Studies 2016, Vol. 16(3) 337 –339 Book review © The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1468797615594749 tou.sagepub.com Keisuke Matsui, Geography of Religion: Religious Space, Landscape, and Behaviour, Tokyo, Japan: Springer, 2014, 199 pp., hardcover, €106.99, ISBN 9784431545491 Reviewed by: Diana Soeiro, IFILNOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Av Berna, 26 4º piso, 1069–061 Lisboa, Portugal According to Matsui (University of Tsukuba, Japan), geography of religion exceeds the framework of cultural geography, having also to consider political, economic, social and psychological aspects (p. 1). Likewise, this means that in order to reflect on the function of religion, we must examine it in the context of local societies. This book proves to be an example of this methodology, pointing to the future of what geography of religion will be. As any good geographer would do, the book’s first chapter is a map that allows us to orient ourselves in Matsui’s approach, presenting us the past and present trends of geo- graphical studies of religion in Japan, in a four-fold manner: (1) relationships between the natural environment and religion; (2) how religion influences social structures, organizations and landscapes in local areas; (3) pilgrimage; and

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