中文摘要：

在文化全球化大背景下,宗教地理研究具有越来越重要的现实意义。国外宗教地理学研究在新文化地理学思潮的影响下,促生出许多新的议题和研究方向。本文依循于人文地理学中地方、景观、现代性和尺度这4个重要概念,梳理了国外近10年宗教地理学研究的新进展。发现其研究议题主要集中于日益重视对＂非正式神圣＂场所的探讨;基于人本主义研究范式下的神圣地依恋研究;随着跨国主义兴起的宗教移民身份和认同研究;宗教文化景观所暗含的政治和象征性意义的解读;宗教的多尺度分析,以及神圣与世俗间的互动分析等等。在总结国外宗教地理研究的新态势的基础上,对宗教的定义、宗教地理学与宗教性地理学的辩证关系、宗教地理学的研究趋势等进行了探讨和反思,以期为中国包括民间信仰在内的广义宗教地理的本土研究提供新的借鉴。

英文摘要：

Under the global shifts,the research on geography of religion has become increasingly important.Driven by the new cultural geography,foreign geography of religion gives birth to many fresh issues and new research directions.Focusing on four key concepts（place,landscape,modernity and scale） in human geography,the present paper teases out the foreign literature on geography of religion in recent 10 years,and finds out that the main research issues can be included as follows： emphasis on the study of＂unofficial sacred＂sites;the attachments people develop with sacred places continuing a humanistic trend;the study of religious immigrants’ identity with the rise of transnationalism;interpretation of the implicit politics and symbolic meanings of religious landscape;establishment of different geographical scales of analyses;exploration of the tensions between the sacred and the secular places.By summing up the concerned issues of geography of religion,the present paper also introduces the foreign scholars’reflections on the definition of religion,the dialectic relationship between the geography of religion and religious geography,and the research trends of geography of religion.Above all,the work conducted in this paper hopes to provide new sights and inspirations for our scholars’local research on geography of religion.