The Changing World Religion Map (PDF)

Stan Brunn labels himself a cosmopolitan Middle Westener after being raised in small towns and rural areas in a half-dozen states. He taught previously at the University of Florida and Michigan State University. He joined the University of Kentucky department in 1980 as chair and served in that capacity from 1980-88. He was appointed by the Governor as State Geographer from 1988-1989. His teaching and research interests include political, social and urban geography, the geographies of information and communication, time-space geographies and innovative cartographies. He has offered seminars on technological hazards, cyberspace, humane geographies, peace and reconciliation.

Stan's research includes a number of authored, edited, and co-edited books and numerous articles which have appeared in geography and interdisciplinary journals. His most recent books are about Wal-Mart, E-commerce, geography and technology, 9-11, the fifth edition of Cities of the World, anAtlas of the 2008 Elections, an Atlas of Central Eurasia, and a three volume edited work on Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Megaengineering Projects, which is based on an international and interdisciplinary conference he co-organized in 2008. Recent articles and chapters, many with friends around the country and world, have dealt with the global financial crisis, immobility in rural Appalachia, religion/music interfaces, stamps and state identity, sparsely settled areas, classifying world cities, cognitive mapping of South African students, and North Dakota's oil boom economies. His current research includes editing a multivolume book on The Changing World Religion Map, which will be published by Springer 2013; it is international in authors, interdisciplinary and also interfaith. Other projects include a co-edited volume on Mapping Across Academia, which has chapters by scholars in the sciences and humanities who use maps and a visually oriented world regional text.

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“Brunn’s work has made a major contribution to the geography of religion and to religious studies in general. The themes addressed in the volumes provide fodder for thought in areas of transcendence, globalization, deterritorialization, and contextualization, as well as offering windows of insight into newly emerging areas of gender challenges, personal preference identity in private, religious, and public space.” (Darrel L. McDonald, The AAG Review of Books, Vol. 6 (2), April, 2018)