Churches and Cities Evolve Together

Abstract

Substantive and methodological writing that deals with religion with in thefield of geography is small in bulk and scattered among publications. Although geographers have long recognized that religious ideas and organizarían may play an important role in the way man occupies and shapes the land. Important geographic studies fousing on this theme only recently have begun to appear. This little essay, building on some of these pioneer studies, shows a particular concern with the interaction between the urban growth and its impact on the churches.