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Words in Space: GIS, Data Mining, and the Visual Display of Religion John Corrigan Florida State University

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Words in Space: GIS, Data Mining, and the Visual 

Display of Religion

John Corrigan

Florida State University

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The Digital Turn

Digital Humanities Manifesto

(UCLA, 2008)

1.

Integration ‐

“Big Humanities”2.

Accessibility – avoid secret languages

3.

Teamwork – collaborative and large scale4.

Affect Positive Scholarship –

aesthetic

5.

Shape Technology – drive innovation6.

Curation

argue with objects

7.

Process –

versus product

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Challenge of Digital Humanities

“Productive Unease”

Julia Flanders, DHQ

(2009)

Trial and Error

Data Mining – theory‐driven?

Outcomes and Conclusions

Collaborative Discomfort

Emergent Semantics

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Spatial Turn

The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of Humanities 

ScholarshipDavid Bodenhamer, John Corrigan, Trevor Harris (2010)

• Thinking without (not quite) language or textuality• Physical space and objects in space• Spatial‐Temporal axes• Imagination• Multimedia “Supplements”• Argument, Voice, and Proof

• Virtual Center for Spatial Humanities

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Words in Space

• Georeferenced

Textual Data

• Linguistic Decontextualization

• Patterns and Correlations

• A Thousand Words

• Continuous Mapping

• Thinking Spatially

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Religious Words in Space

• Space: Atlantic World

• Words: Colonial American Publications– Religious Writings

– 1676‐1740– Sample: 26 documents

– 2200 db lines– Pilot Data

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Words: Fear, Africa, Devil, Slave • Appear in all documents

• Linked in Reading

• Spatial Consciousness 

• Proximity to Place Names: 5pp.

• Place names: City, State, Country, Continent,     Region

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Purpose

What does the colonial consciousness of    

space in relation to four central linguistic

terms tell us about how the terms are related

conceptually and how might that lead us to 

read the religious documents differently?

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Method Issues

• Proximity search –

Boolean logic

• Words: markers of spatial awareness

• Colonial awareness of the Atlantic World

• Writers, Readers, More Writers

• Spatial clustering

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Out of Africa

• AFRICA: Is it religiously dangerous?

• ENGLAND: witch‐hunting in the 17c

• NEW ENGLAND: Holy Commonwealth and the  witchcraft cosmology

• THE SOUTH: Proslavery religion

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Slavery and the Religious Wordview

• Development of proslavery religion

• Antecedents• Debates

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