ABSTRACT
Mobility-caused violence strikes human beings and animals on land, in water, and in air, as well as damages—through climate change—organisms and ecosystems within the whole biosphere. The concepts of space and place will deeply influence the understanding of motion and mobility. It is therefore necessary to locate the discourse on mobility within a wider discourse in which concepts of space need to be revised. The impact of increasing mobility on a globalizing world is so profound that it calls for an analysis far beyond the forums of established academic disciplines. The world council of churches and the conference of the christian churches in Europe criticize motorized mobility's environmental impact on the climate. Both new religious movements and established religious traditions reconstruct the practices and beliefs of pilgrimage spirituality. Environmental movements in Germany argue for "de-acceleration", and bioregionalism, strong in the United States, argues for smaller scales of transport, markets, and exchanges.
