MUHAMMAD AKIF KHOKHAR2025-08-282025-08-282022-10-20https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/5568Human beings are rational social animals but react to emotions more than rational thoughts, sometimes even defying rationality when encountered with social constructs like creed, race, caste, beliefs, etc. Social Constructivists argue that humans learn and adapt through interaction with each other and give meaning and assign value to the constructs that are created in the process of these interactions; such values are usually emotional. Religion is one of these constructs. Religious emotion, when attached to any material, person or philosophy, dramatically changes its importance for that particular society. The same is the case with geographic locations. Geography does not only hold strategic, economic, or martial significance (among many other aspects) but it also plays a very important role in religious ontology and epistemology. Believers travel hundreds and thousands of miles to fulfill religious rituals and pilgrimages. The sacred places have played an empirical and decisive role in human history, wars have been fought and hegemonies have been declared based on religious sentiments attached to them.en-USThesis