What is "geopiety"

Geopiety is a term for "the belief and worship of powers behind nature or the human environment". It was coined by the American geographer John Kirtland Wright.

The term "geopiety" comes from a combination of the Greek root geo, for earth, and the Latin root " pietas". As Wright explained when coining the term, geopiety is meant to refer to "emotional piety aroused by awareness of terrestrial diversity of the kind of which geography is also a form of awareness".

One example of geopiety can be found in the works of American preacher Jonathan Edwards: