When revolutions for independence broke out, religious life in the Spanish American world was ruled by the Indian patronage regime [patronato], which gave the monarch tight control over ecclesiastical institutions. Patronage included, among many other prerogatives, presenting candidates to the pope, appointing parish priests and doctrine teachers, the right to allow or deny the dissemination of...

e institutional and path-dependency approaches used to explain innovation in Britain during the Industrial Revolution generate prediction errors when applied elsewhere. Here, innovation is modeled as a dynamic coordination game with multiple equilibria. Tests of the resulting propositions based on 116 successful inventions between 1700 and 1849 suggest that there were two distinct categories of...

This article reviews geographical research on religion in the 1990s, and highlights work from neighbouring disciplines where relevant. Contrary to views that the field is incoherent, I suggest that much of the literature pays attention to several key themes, particularly, the politics and poetics of religious place, identity and community. I illustrate the key issues, arguments and conceptualiz...

Each month, many women experience an ovulatory cycle that regulates fertility. Although research has found that this cycle influences women's mating preferences, we proposed that it might also change women's political and religious views. Building on theory suggesting that political and religious orientation are linked to reproductive goals, we tested how fertility influenced women's politics, ...

Persons of faith are now seeking religious exemptions from laws concerning sex, reproduction, and marriage on the ground that the law makes the objector complicit in the assertedly sinful conduct of others. We term claims of this kind, which were at issue in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, complicity-based conscience claims. Complicity-based conscience claims differ in form and in social logic f...

Often religion and spirituality are used interchangeably. Spirituality may or may not include religion, which is related to an organized institution. Spirituality on the other hand is the transcendent relationship between the person and a higher being, a quality that goes beyond a specific religious application (Peterson & Nelson 1989). Both religion and spirituality offer a sense of meaning an...

This paper explores the relationship that travelling had with myth, spirituality and religion in the pre-industrial Korean society. In particular, the paper examines in what way religion and its political associations had 'connection'/ 'relationship' with the travellers' ways of appreciating the places. Through literature research and content analysis of classic travelogues from 14th century of...