Gods of the city: religion and the American urban landscape
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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Published: |
Bloomington, IN
Indiana University Press
(c)1999
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In: | Year: 1999 |
Series/Journal: | Religion in North America
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Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ City
/ Religious life
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Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B United States Religion United States B United States B Religion B Cities and towns (United States) B Cities and towns ; Religious aspects B TRAVEL ; Special Interest ; Religious B United States Religion B Cities and towns United States B Cities and towns B Cities and towns Religious aspects B Electronic books B Religion ; History |
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Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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Summary: | Annotation Introduction: crossing the city line / Robert A. Orsi -- Staying grounded in a high-rise building: ecological dissonance and ritual accommodation in Haitian vodou / Karen McCarthy Brown -- The Hindu gods in a split-level world: the Sri Siva-Vishnu Temple in suburban Washington, D.C. / Joanne Punzo Waghorne -- Diasporic nationalism and urban landscape: Cuban immigrants at a Catholic shrine in Miami / Thomas A. Tweed -- Altared spaces: Afro-Cuban religions and the urban landscape in Cuba and the United States / David H. Brown -- Moses of the south Bronx: aging and dying in the old neighborhood / Jack Kugelmass -- The religious boundaries of an in-between people: street feste and the problem of the dark-skinned other in Italian Harlem, 1920-1990 / Robert A. Orsi -- Heritage, ritual, and translation: Seattle's Japanese Presbyterian church / Madeline Duntley -- "We go where the Italians live": religious processions as ethnic and territorial markers in a multi-ethnic Brooklyn neighborhood / Joseph Sciorra -- The stations of the cross: Christ, politics, and processions on New York City's Lower East Side / Wayne Ashley -- "The Cathedral of the Open Air": the Salvation Army's sacralization of secular space, New York City, 1880-1910 / Diane Winston. Urban religion strikes ma ... |
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Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record |
ISBN: | 0585218250 |