| Autor: |
Greene, Richard Royce, Jr. |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Rok vydání: |
2014 |
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| Druh dokumentu: |
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| Popis: |
Geographers have traditionally delimited and mapped religious adherence at the national or international scales through the use of small-scale choropleth maps depicting national or international distributions. Because such maps engender a number of shortcomings this study employs publically available county-level data on religious adherence from the Digital Atlas of American Religion, a web-based GIS site that enables researchers using spatially referenced data, to make complex and visually dynamic maps that can be easily interpreted. The analysis employs measures of diversity and isolation drawn from the fields of statistics and biology to develop diversity and isolation indices that will then be mapped employing a GIS in order to produce a more accurate interpretation of religious diversity in the southeastern United States. The study argues that the indices of relative "strength" derived from the methodologies employed in this study will produce a more accurate assessment of religious diversity. |
| Databáze: |
Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations |
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