When God Comes to Town

Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-807-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 251 g

Reihe: Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture

Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number is expected to have gone up to some seventy per cent. This poses problems for traditional religions that are all rooted in rural, small-scale societies. The authors in this volume question what the possible appeal of these old religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, or Islam could be in the new urban environment and, conversely, what impact global urbanization will have on learning and on the performance and nature of ritual. Anthropologists, historians and political scientists have come together in this volume to analyse attempts made by churches and informal groups to adapt to these changes and, at the same time, to explore new ways to study religions in a largely urbanized environment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pinxten, Rik

Dikomitis, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Introduction: When God Comes to Town

Rik Pinxten and Lisa Dikomitis

PART I: NATION VERSUS STATE

Chapter 1. Religion and Nationality: The Tangled Greek Case

Renée Hirschon

Chapter 2. A Church Lost in the Maze of a City without References

Bruno Drweski

PART II: URBAN TRANSFORMATIONS

Chapter 3.The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Urbanism

Simon Coleman

Chapter 4. The Ecology and Economy of Urban Religious Space: A Socio-Historical Account of Quakers in Town

Peter Collins

PART III: URBAN MIGRATION

Chapter 5. Rural Immigrants and Official Religion in an Urban Religious Festival in Greece

Giorgos Vozikas

Chapter 6. From the City to the Village and Back: Greek Cypriot Refugees Engaging in ‘Pilgrimages’ across the Border

Lisa Dikomitis

PART IV: IMPACT OF MODERNITY

Chapter 7. Reading the City Religious: Urban Transformations and Social Reconstruction in Recife, Brazil

Marjo de Theije

Chapter 8. Modernity Contra Tradition? Taijiquan’s Struggle for Survival: A Chinese Case Study

Dan Vercammen

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dikomitis, Lisa
Lisa Dikomitis is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hull York Medical School where she works on a project researching social responses to health inequalities. She has published widely about Greek and Turkish Cypriot refugees and is the author of Cyprus and Its Places of Desire. Cultures of Displacement Among Greek and Turkish Cypriot Refugees (IB Tauris, 2012).

Pinxten, Rik
Rik Pinxten is Professor and Senior Researcher in Anthropology and Head of Department of Comparative Sciences of Culture at Ghent University, Belgium. His current research focus is on identity as a central mechanism in cultural and religious learning processes. He has published widely on the anthropology of knowledge and the comparative study of religion.

Lisa Dikomitis is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Hull York Medical School where she works on a project researching social responses to health inequalities. She has published widely about Greek and Turkish Cypriot refugees and is the author of Cyprus and Its Places of Desire. Cultures of Displacement Among Greek and Turkish Cypriot Refugees (IB Tauris, 2012).