Rachel Goodwyn-Outside Reading #2

In the article, “On the Geography of Religion,” Gregory Levin says part of the study of religion is the people’s adaptation and creation of landscape, which connects the both religion and geography. The geography of religion is a subset of cultural religion, but still today there is little debate about concerning the abstract foundations. It notes that the phenomenological approach is important in the religious journey, however that there are other approaches to the study of religion that have yet to be studied in depth. Goes on to point out that the use of environment by humans is not only directed towards people, but also been directed towards the sacred. Landscape and how it is used is affected by the important ideologies that direct the process and help accomplish this process of using the landscape. One very important ideology is that of religious belief, which for example keeps people from being able to use burial grounds for roadways and new shopping areas.