非常に多様化しているアメリカの宗教。本書では、先住民族の時代から現在までのアメリカの宗教の歴史をたどりつつ、ハイブリッドな宗教的アイデンティティの拡大現象、増え続ける新しい宗教運動などにも目を向けます。現代アメリカにおける多数派、ならびに少数派も含む、他では触れられることのない多角的な要素を取り上げて、アメリカの宗教事情や、今後を左右し得る要素を探っていきます。
   

• An essential insight into one of the most complex and misunderstood disciplines
• Shows how Geography forms an integral part of contemporary life, with a wide range of up-to-date examples from global warming and oil to urbanization and ethnicity
• Explains the methods and cutting-edge technologies that geographers use today
• Looks at both Physical Geography, which covers natural environments and landscapes, and Human Geography, which investigates people and the cultural landscape, and explains the tensions and also the unity between the two areas of study
• Reveals how Geography can help solve major environmental and social issues

　　　
Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography, the discipline today is unique as a subject which can bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities, and between the environment and our society. 

Using wide-ranging examples from global warming and oil, to urbanization and ethnicity, this Very Short Introduction paints a broad picture of the current state of Geography, its subject matter, concepts and methods, and its strengths and controversies. The book>'s conclusion is no less than a manifesto for Geography's future.