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Despite a well-established interest in the relationship between space and identity, geographers still know little about how communal identities in specific places are built around a sense of religious belonging. This paper explores both the theoretical and practical terrain around which such an investigation can proceed. The paper makes space for the exploration of a specific set of religious groups and practices, which reflected the activities of Methodists in Cornwall during the period 1830–1930. The paper is concerned to move analysis beyond the 'officially sacred' and to explore the everyday, informal, and often banal, practices of Methodists, thereby providing a blueprint for how work in the geography of religion may move forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers recent pleas for a 'geography of gentrification', arguing that they have been very urban in focus and often enact what, following Soja (1996), might be described as `firstspace epistemology'. The paper identifies traces of other, secondspace and thirdspace geographies of gentrification. It is argued that these geographies may not be fully commensurable with each other but that they each may have some commensurability with rural as well as the urban spatialities. The paper goes on to explore these arguments in relation to studies of gentrification of the British countryside, focusing particularly on gentrification in rural Norfolk. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The basic concerns of Progress in Human Geography are with research in the discipline – and rightly so. The great majority of the articles we publish and the progress reports we commission focus on research, and the ‘Classics in human geography revisited’ series similarly concentrates on seminal research papers and books (although a small number of the books covered have been ‘texts’ – broadly defined). Only in the book reviews sections is more attention paid to textbooks – and even here we tend not to review those which are explicitly texts, especially if written for introductory courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]