sentences:  Another aspect of the relationship between religion and geography is "religious geography", in which geographical ideas are influenced by religion, such as early map-making, and the "biblical geography" that developed in the 16th century to identify places from the Bible.Traditionally, the relationship between geography and religion can clearly be seen by the influences of religion in shaping cosmological understandings of the world.From the sixteenth and seventeenth century, the study of geography and religion mainly focused on mapping the spread of Christianity (termed ecclesiastical geography by Issac 1965), though in the later half of the seventeenth century, the influences and spread of other religions were also taken into account.