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Guarda, Israel  & Guerreiro, Maria Rosália (2017). Religion, Space and Culture. II International Congress Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human Sciences.
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I. V. Guarda and M. R. Guerreiro,  "Religion, Space and Culture", in II Int. Congr. Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human Sciences, Faro, 2017
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@misc{guarda2017_1715935495376,
	author = "Guarda, Israel  and Guerreiro, Maria Rosália",
	title = "Religion, Space and Culture",
	year = "2017",
	howpublished = "Digital",
	url = "http://cieo15.wixsite.com/interdiscip2017"
}
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TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Religion, Space and Culture
T2  - II International Congress Interdisciplinarity in Social and Human Sciences
AU  - Guarda, Israel 
AU  - Guerreiro, Maria Rosália
PY  - 2017
CY  - Faro
UR  - http://cieo15.wixsite.com/interdiscip2017
AB  - Traditional places of worship were related with sacred spaces and this fact has been reflected in spatial cultures and within the
structures of the city and territory. Dematerialization and placelessness characterizes the new urban landscape. Location
and functionality of the buildings seem to be the common elements between new religious movements. The appropriation
of available spaces and buildings (factories and industrial structures, warehouses, shops, cinemas, etc.) with good global
accessibility seems to be the main reasons for choosing a place for worship. This paper examines the relationship between space
and religion within Lisbon landscape and it aims to answer the following questions: In which way spatiality has implications
in the constitution of the new places of worship? What is their relationship with the local communities and how they help
to form new spatial cultures and urbanities in suburban landscapes? What are the change and persistence of the traditional
pattern of sacred spaces as places of worship? To answer this questions, we present a new methodology to investigate the
urban spatial structure by using Space Syntax with the GIS for analysis and visualization of places of worship.
Two levels of scale analysis were required: Global (Lisbon city and suburbs) and local (neighborhood-street). Space Syntax
models the spatial configurations of urban spaces by using a connectivity graph representation. Using GIS software all places
of worship were mapped within the region according to different religions. The patterns of distribution and clustering were
then correlated with the syntactic measures.
ER  -