World religion data in this dataset is from the World Religion Database.The map shows the percentage of the majority religion by provinces/states and also included in the database is Christian percentage by provinces/states. Boundaries are based on Natural Earth, August, 2011 modified to match provinces in the World Religion Database.*Originally titled

Map with Collection of GIS Layers including original US Protestant Religion Data 1970-90

THE GEOINQUIRIES™ COLLECTION FOR AMERICAN LITERATURE

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The Esri GeoInquiry™ collection for American Literature contains 15 free, standards-based activities that correspond and extend map-based concepts found in course texts frequently used in high school literature. The activities use a common inquiry-based instructional model, require only 15 minutes to deliver, and are device/laptop agnostic. Each activity includes an ArcGIS Online map but requires no login or installation. The activities harmonize with the Common Core ELA national curriculum standards.

All American Literature GeoInquiries™ can be found at: http://esriurl.com/litGeoInquiries

All GeoInquiries™ can be found at: http://www.esri.com/geoinquiries

Layered GeoPDF 7.5 Minute Quadrangle Map. Layers of geospatial data include orthoimagery, roads, grids, geographic names, elevation contours, hydrography, and other selected map features.

Borderlands are typical spaces where a multiplicity of contacts reflect and produce a multiplicity of perceptions, images and identities. Early modern period in Croatian history is burdened with frequent changes of borders between three imperial systems with different religious systems and cultural traditions that have intertwined on the Croatian territory. Croatian territory was a “meeting point” of Western and Eastern world, Christianity and Islam as well as maritime and continental traditions, leading to mixed cultural, religious, ethnic groups and lifestyles in borderlands. Appreciation of these differences, sense of uniqueness and perception of otherness, through the territorialization, conditioned the construction of spatial images and eventually resulted in regional identity. Map deconstruction was employed as a basic research strategy, signifying a search for alternative meaning, metaphor and rhetoric in the textuality of the map. The main aim was to reveal the symbolic layer of the map that leads us into the process of imaging the past and constructing regional identities in the multicultural realities. Based on the early modern cartographic sources, several examples of cartography in making the geography of religion and constructing regional identities in borderlands are being discussed.

Since 2010, the researchers on this project have been gathering information on over 250 congregations and over 500 sites related to religious and ethnic groups who settled in several neighborhoods in the Twin Cities from approximately 1849, when the Territory of Minnesota was established, until 1924 when the federal government closed off immigration to the United States. The neighborhoods initially selected for this study fan out from the Mississippi River, the area where settlements were initially established and the corridor that connects the two cities. Thus, the river serves as the project’s geographical link. While the study initially focused on houses of worship (churches and synagogues) as a means to explore the complexity of religious life and ethnic interaction during this period in the Twin Cities as new immigrants acclimate themselves to the region, we soon realized that other sites needed to be included as well: specifically, places where these diverse people found solace among like-minded individuals, such as social clubs and ethnic/religious institutions, and places where they had to intermingle and interact with the “other,” folks whose beliefs, cultures and languages differed from theirs. These latter places include settlement houses, schools, playgrounds and athletic fields, and hospitals. As a result, the website allows exploration of a number of topics: community creation, ethnicity and identity, relationships among congregations, intra-congregational interactions, the role of houses of worship, and social class structures. Tools provided here include information on individual Christian and Jewish congregations (click above on Browse) photographs on houses of worship, and an interactive map depicting the location of congregations over time (click above on Geography). The project goal is to document for future generations the legacy of the historic neighborhoods that were once home to their forbearers.

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The world's Jewish population has had a complex and tumultuous history over the past millennia, regularly dealing with persecution, pogroms, and even genocide. The legacy of expulsion and persecution of Jews, including bans on land ownership, meant that Jewish communities disproportionately lived in urban areas, working as artisans or traders, and often lived in their own settlements separate to the rest of the urban population. This separation contributed to the impression that events such as pandemics, famines, or economic shocks did not affect Jews as much as other populations, and such factors came to form the basis of the mistrust and stereotypes of wealth (characterized as greed) that have made up anti-Semitic rhetoric for centuries. Development since the Middle Ages The concentration of Jewish populations across the world has shifted across different centuries. In the Middle Ages, the largest Jewish populations were found in Palestine and the wider Levant region, with other sizeable populations in present-day France, Italy, and Spain. Later, however, the Jewish disapora became increasingly concentrated in Eastern Europe after waves of pogroms in the west saw Jewish communities move eastward. Poland in particular was often considered a refuge for Jews from the late-Middle Ages until the 18th century, when it was then partitioned between Austria, Prussia, and Russia, and persecution increased. Push factors such as major pogroms in the Russian Empire in the 19th century and growing oppression in the west during the interwar period then saw many Jews migrate to the United States in search of opportunity.