Hegner / Margry Spiritualizing the City

Agency and Resilience of the Urbanesque Habitat
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-39668-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City

This book develops new theoretical vocabulary for analyzing the relationship between the city and religious belief and practice, and seeks to understand how religion is being lived by people today.

It explores the complex interplay between the (post) modern city and new religious and spiritual movements. The focus of this book relies on new religious expressions, cosmologies, and ways of life that go beyond established belief systems and religious understandings. The book develops an ethnography-based analysis of the ways in which the ‘urban’ inscribes itself into various religious practices and vice versa, and how religiosity and spirituality appropriate and transform the meanings of the urban. The sharp distinction between cities and rural areas is vanishing and most people now lead an urban or semi-urban life. As such, the book explores a new conceptualization of the word urban that is tightly linked with qualitative ethnographic research on the ground. The book also explores how cities as both considered as sites and sources where the globalization of religions takes place, as well as the fact that globalization is closely linked to the process of localization. The socio-cultural and political uniqueness of the specific urban context are analyzed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hegner, Victoria

Margry, Peter Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I. Introduction: Spiritualizing the City 1. Introduction Victoria Hegner & Peter Jan Margry II. Politics of Religious Plurality and Identity 2. God and the City: Contemporary perspectives and challenges Rik Pinxten 3. Governing religious diversity in urban contexts: The interplay of religious and state representatives in local interfaith networks Eva Dick and Alexander Kenneth Nagel 4. Reconstructing Catholic space and place in the "Rome of the West" Tricia C. Bruce 5. Urban representation visibility and institutionalization of Islam in three German cities Riem Spielhaus III. Producing and Negotiating Religious Space 6. Moving churches, Changing Cities. Spatial and iconic strategies of new congregations in Berlin and Istanbul Dorothea Nold 7. Religious place-making and the production of urban localities – new migrants in Berlin Gertrud Hüwelmeier 8. Buddhism in the British urban landscape: negotiation of new religious spaces Jill Sudbury 9. National, Local, and Global: Kraków as a ‘Lived Shrine’ of John Paul II Anna Niedzwiedz IV. Religious Practice and Migration in the Urbanesque Habitat 10. Animal spirits and the urban Landscape Sabina Magliocco 11. Where the Byzantinesque meets the Urbanesque: Architectural and Iconographic Elements of Greek-Orthodox Urban Reterritorialization in Germany Eleni Tseligka and Georgios Trantas 12. South Asian religious architecture in the suburban diaspora: recreation and reinvention Claire Dwyer V. The Agency of Body and Senses in Spiritualized Practices 13. The dance floor as urban altar: How bodies transform the lived experience of cities in a New Age Dance Church Sarah M. Pike 14. 'Music is prayer two times‘. A transnational perspective on cultural performance and urban religiosity in Cameroon and Switzerland Raphaela von Weichs 15. A Saxophone Divine: The transformative power of Saint John Coltrane’s Jazz Music Peter Jan Margry and Daniel Wojcik