Maps of War, a find via the Houtlust site, obviously developing, but I liked this interactive map of religious development, shown above, which will come in useful for the spatial aspect of my Religious Studies teaching. Of course, it’s difficult to produce such an accurate map and it is somewhat simplified, where is Sikhism, but it’s an interesting attempt at a spatial representation. I’m not sure it fulfils the secondary title of ‘Faith and its Wars across History’. I personally don’t believe religions cause war, it’s just mans’ interpretation of scripture that is the root of conflict. Remember all religions subscribe to the golden rule.Oops, slightly political there. 
The site has a U.S. perspective, as shown by the map of Republican and Democrat ‘wars’, which I imagine could promote some interesting debate, check out the feedback! 
Just goes to show that perspective in cartography continues to exist in the web age, and that we should be challenging students to unpick these perspectives. Maps with perspectives, now there’s an idea.
I really like that the author has allowed people to download the maps, this makes them much easier to use in the classroom, for those of us that have interesting blocking policies. 
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