Map of Roman Catholics by county in
the United States (source) Roman Catholic
villages
in Central Minnesota (1:100,000 map)
Map of Germans by county
in the United States
Close-up of a Roman Catholic
village (1:24,000 map)
St.
Johns University and
College
of
St. Benedict (1:24,000 maps)
Do Roman Catholics put up more or fewer religious
landscape icons where they predominate in an area? To answer this
question, I randomly sampled three townships in Stearns County (red
circle),
where the
largest concentration of Roman Catholics in Minnesota are located, within each
of three spatial types:
1) the core with over 69 percent
Catholics of the total population,
2) the domain with between 69 and 30 percent
Catholics, and
3)
the sphere with less than 30 percent Catholics.
The number and kind of shrines,
e.g., Mary in the bathtub, crosses, religious statutes, etc., were counted
in each of the three areas.
Click on each highlighted word to see a photo.
