Religious pluralism and the city: inquiries into postsecular urbanism
"Religious Pluralism and the City challenges the notion that the city is a secular place, and calls for an analysis of how religion and the city are intertwined. It is the first book to analyze the explanatory value of a number of typologies already in use around this topic -- from "holy c...
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Bloomsbury Academic
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Series/Journal: | Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place Ser
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Religious pluralism
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Collection of essays
B Religion and sociology B Cities and towns Religious aspects B Electronic books B Conference program 2016 (Darmstadt) B Religious Pluralism |
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| Summary: | "Religious Pluralism and the City challenges the notion that the city is a secular place, and calls for an analysis of how religion and the city are intertwined. It is the first book to analyze the explanatory value of a number of typologies already in use around this topic -- from "holy city" to "secular city", from "fundamentalist" to "postsecular" city. By intertwining the city and religion, urban theory, and theories of religion, this is the first book to provide an international and interdisciplinary analysis of post-secular urbanism. The book argues that, given the rise of religiously inspired violence and the increasing significance of charismatic Christianity, Islam, and other spiritual traditions, the master narrative that modern societies are secular societies has lost its empirical plausibility. Instead, we are seeing the pluralization of religion, the co-existence of different religious worldviews, and the simultaneity of secular and religious institutions that shape everyday life. These particular constellations of "religious pluralism" are, above all, played out in cities. Including contributions from Peter L. Berger and Nezar Alsayyad, this book conceptually and empirically revokes the dissolution between city and religion to unveil its intimate relationship, and offers an alternative view on the quotidian state of the global urban condition. This volume presents new conceptual ideas and state-of-the-art research on the interplay of religion and the city. Given the rise of religiously inspired violence and the increasing significance of charismatic Christianity, Islam and other spiritual traditions, the master narrative that modern societies are at once secular societies has lost its empirical plausibility. As scholars of religion have shown, it is not the decline rather than the pluralization of religion, that is, the co-existence of different religious worldviews and the simultaneity of secular and religious institutions that shape everyday life. These particular constellations of 'religious pluralism' are above all played out in cities. It is the 'city' where power struggles and conflicts concerning the right to religious practices and representations in the public realm are realized, where new civilizational arrangements are made or gamed away. However, religious pluralism as a defining feature of the 'city' still falls on deaf ears in urban theory for which the modern city remains the secular space per se. Therefore, the aim of this vol ... Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Filling the Void? â Religious Pluralism and the City -- City, religion, and modernity -- What is a city? -- Th e post-secular city vs. the fundamentalist city -- Urban formulas of peace -- Toward a comparative study of urban religions -- Outline of the volume -- Part One From Secularization to Pluralization -- 1 Urbanity as a Vortex of Pluralism: A Personal Reflection about City and Religion -- Part Two Between Fundamentalism and Postsecularism: Conceptualizing the Relations between City and Religion -- 2 The Death and Life of the Fundamentalist City: A Prelude to a Medieval Modernity -- Fundamentalism and urbanism -- City and hinterland -- The Fundamentalist City -- A medieval modernity -- 3 Postsecularity and a New Urban PoliticsâSpaces, Places, and Imaginaries -- Cosmopolitan religion -- Postsecularity -- Progressive localism -- Religious and secular spiritual capital -- Curating a new ethics and politics of civil engagement -- Conclusion -- 4 Religion of the City: Urban-Religious Configurations on a Global Scale -- The (secular) city of the West and the (religious) city of the rest: Deconstructing a myth -- Integrating religion into urban studies: Recent approaches -- Self-made religions as infrastructures of marginalized urban inhabitants -- Religious metropolitan mainstream -- Religion of the city -- Part Three Religious Pluralism: Conflicts and Negotiations in the City -- 5 Religious Superdiversity and Urban Visibility in Barcelona and Turin -- Cities, religion, and space -- Understanding religious superdiversity -- Religious diversity in the post-anticlerical city: Barcelona -- Religious superdiversity and spatial politics in Turin Three spatial strategies in religiously superdiverse cities -- Conclusions -- 6 Capturing Carnival: Religious Diversity and Spatial Contestation in Rio de Janeiro -- Public parades, national belonging, and religious diversity -- Brazilian evangelical Christianity -- Evangelical public presence and carnival -- Capturing carnival -- Concluding remarks -- 7 Migration and Morality: Secular and Religious Considerations among Romanian and Bulgarian Migrants in and around London -- Migration to Londonâa brief history -- Studying migration from former âIron Curtainâ countries -- Migration, respectability and morality -- Religion and ethnicity: Romanian refl ections -- Ethnicity as a resource: Bulgarian refl ections -- Perceptions of British society -- Conclusion -- NINo data -- 8 Marketplace, Fallow Ground, and Special Pastoral Care: What Christian Churches in Germany know about the Cityâan Interdenominational Comparison -- Church and country in mutual dynamic -- God as the precarious wildcard in the city -- The good news of the marketâs paradoxy -- The city dwellerâs triple lack of attachment -- Visible inclusion and religious latency -- Results -- Part Four Changing Urban Imaginaries -- 9 Worlds within Worlds: Vernacular Pluralism, Publics of Belonging, and the Making of Modern Bangalore -- At Richards Square -- Bangalore today -- The secular Indian state and religious plurality -- The history of plurality in the metropolis -- Troubling plurality -- The ethics of pluralism -- 10 Jerusalemâs Imaginaries in the Neo-Liberal City: Re-Visiting Visual Representations in the âHoly Cityâ -- Jerusalem -- 2004 and 2011: Visual representations in Jerusalem -- The 2016 walkâfrom religious-secular to neo- liberal representations -- Discussion and conclusions -- 11 âThe Sumerian Tempelstadtâ: The Modern Making of an Ancient Urban Concept The twentieth century ce -- Urbanization and the role of religion -- Religion and the city -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1350037699 |