BellingenNSWDec 1

Mapping the promised land for God’s chosen people
Imagined lands, biblical narratives and monotheistic practices and beliefs.

* First 'Bible map' published 500 years ago still influences how we think about borders, study suggests
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-bible-published-years-borders.html

* Assmann, Jan. The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691157085/the-invention-of-religion

#territory #maps #borders #expansion #PromisedLand #monotheism #BoundaryMaking #ReligiousAuthorisation #sovereignty #BiblicalLiteralism #GodsWill #christian #fundamentalism #theology #LandClaims #ImaginedCommunity #PlaceNames #SettlerSociety #narratives #GodZone

First 'Bible map' published 500 years ago still influences how we think about borders, study suggests

The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the wrong way round—showing the Mediterranean to the East—but its inclusion set a precedent which continues to shape our understanding of state borders today, a new Cambridge study argues.

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Show threadkatFeb 8, 2023
Paracelsus famously said "It is only the dose which makes a thing poison." Borders constrain and divide, they are often contested, policed, enforced. Yet they also protect, define, collect... Their value is in the way that they and their permeability are navigated.
#borders #identity #self #others #boundaries #boundarymaking #Paracelsus
Janine DahindenNov 13, 2022
#introductionpost - thanks for reblogging!
In my work I theorize processes of #(de)migranticization, #boundarymaking, #bordering, and their production of #inequalities linked to #ethnicity, #racialization, #class, #gender. My work is anchored in #reflexivemigrationstudies and I am interested in #knowledgeproduction and power. I analyse the ways the logics of the #nation-state and #coloniality (in intersection with gender/sexuality/class) lead to contemporary forms of Othering/exclusions.