Urban Religion : : A Historical Approach to Urban Growth and Religious Change / / Jörg Rüpke.

So far religion has been seen as cause for dramatic developments in the history of cities, it has contributed to the monumentalisation of centres and or has given importance to ex-centric places. Very recently, anthropologists have been discovering religion in the contemporary global city. But still...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Urban religion in a historical perspective
  • 1. Looking at religion in the city
  • 2. Before urban religion: Fustel de Coulanges and narratives of civic religion
  • 3. Urbanising and urbanised religion
  • 4. Presupposing the city: Philosophical piety as urbanised religion
  • 5. Crafting complex place: Religion and urban development
  • 6. Materiality of religion in urban space: Neighbourhoods of a metropolis
  • 7. Urban resilience and religion: Attaching time to place
  • 8. Urban Selves: Individualisation in urban space
  • 9. Urbanity and multiple religious identities
  • Conclusion: Religion and urbanity
  • References
  • Index