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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Foreword
Chapter 1 Introduction
The history of religion and cities
Sacred space/urban place
The ecological model
Theorizing religion and cities
Structure of this Handbook
Notes
Part I Research methodologies
Chapter 2 Studying religion and cities: Emergent meanings and methodologies
Religion and Cities as a field
Emerging research methodologies in the study of religion and cities
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 3 Ethnographic approaches: Contextual religious cosmopolitanisms in Mumbai
Introduction
From “Bom ba(h)ía” to Bombay to Mumbai
In the field in the city: stages of research
Cosmopolitanism in Mumbai
Two case studies
Concluding remarks
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 4 Eyes upon the street: Visual social scientific approaches to religion and the city
Introduction
Visual social science
Case study: Spatial semiotics58
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 5 Architectural analysis: Approaching the study of religion and cities through the built environment
Introduction
Approach 1: Analyzing religious buildings as parts or wholes
Approach 2: Examining spatial relationships
Approach 3: Uncovering religious values and sacred principles for the built environment
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6 Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Mapping jhandis in Little Guyana
Introduction
More than a flag
Mapping jhandis
Reflections on mapping jhandis
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 7 Infrastructure between anthropology, geography, and religious studies
Methodological considerations
Between enchantment and zoning: Roads and religion
Infrastructure, religion, and cities: Moving forward
Notes
Bibliography
Part II Religious frameworks and ideologies in urban contexts
Chapter 8 Religion, culture, and urban space: Chicago and American religious history beyond 1893
The Portage: A fragment in space and time
The “Daemon” of innovation: Speculation, migration, and the urban
Rings, loops, and grand courts: Sociology, migration, and religion on display
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 9 Faith in the suburbs: Evangelical Christian books about suburban life
Introduction
Evangelicals in the American suburbs
Key themes of the texts
Missing aspects of suburban life
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 10 Who defines the religious narrative for justice?: The old guard meets the avant-garde in Nashville—the “it” city
The old guard
The avant-garde
The lives
The movement
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 11 A feminist theo-ethic of justice-seeking-love for smart urbanites
Feminist theological ethics for smart urbanism
Public–private partnerships (P3s) for smart urbanism
Private corporations for the public good?
Google’s wrongdoings as sin and evil
Sidewalk\'s “Toronto Tomorrow” plan
Resisting Sidewalk by naming ideological underpinnings
Feminist theological anthropologies for smart urbanism
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 12 (Irish) neoliberalism’s ruins: Ghost and vacant properties as signposts of idolatry
Introduction: Bubble, burst, then repeat
The ruins of the Celtic Tiger
How theological reflection might function amid ruins
Ruins: What idolatry leaves behind
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 13 Religious buildings and ideological conflicts: Broken religious sites and unbroken spatial attachments in Jos North, Nigeria
Introduction
History of Jos’ urban growth
History of religious buildings in Jos North
Conflict and religious buildings
Broken religious sites and unbroken spatial attachments
Ideological buffers, hope, and historical monuments
Spatial powers of ruined religious sites
Conclusion: Anxieties, sentiments, and hope
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 14 The ephemeral city: Indonesian piety on the move
Greeting the forest
Building the city
Governing the city
Commercial beginnings
Transnational identity
Toward a reorientation of religion and the city
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 15 Religious space in public art: The New Negro and the New Deal in Harlem
Introduction
The New Deal: Locating “the people” within the national cosmos
The New Negro movement: Placing black Americans in a black history
The New Negro and the New Deal: A tensive synthesis
Public art, religious space
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 16 The intersection of immigration, social conflict, and art: Dance and identity in “East” Haifa
“The Wedding”
“What the Shoulders Remember”
“BUG”
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 17 A liberation narrative of religious presence amid the protests: Hong Kong theology
Introduction
Lessons of the Umbrella Movement in 2014
The role of Christianity in the Anti-Extradition Bill Protests of 2019
Discussion and conclusion
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Part III Contemporary issues in religion and cities
Chapter 18 Religious agency in the dynamics of gentrification: Moving in, moving out, and staying put in Philadelphia
Urban gentry
Moving in
Moving out
Staying put
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 19 Urban historic sacred places in transition: Partners for sacred places
Previous inquiries: 1998–2016
Sacred places in transition: Learnings gleaned from Philadelphia’s Historic Sacred Places and Partners’ field experience
Lancaster, PA: A small city comparison
A broken legacy of building transitions revisited
Envisioning alternative outcomes—What makes for healthy transitions?
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 20 Praying with our feet: Interfaith rituals of disruption and sanctification in the public square
Shared approaches to ritual and symbolic action
“Praying with our feet”
Communicating messages of violation and opportunity
POWER: Philadelphians Organized to Witness, Empower, and Rebuild
Earth Quaker Action Team (EQAT)
Heeding God’s Call to End Gun Violence
Creating a culture of “holy envy”
Interfaith prayer—A peculiar and radical act
The complex symbolism of clerical vestments
The symbolic significance of space
Rituals of disruption and sanctification
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 21 Community organizing and congregational agency in shaping city life
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 22 Discourse of faith and power: Turnaround Tuesday, a case study in Baltimore
Employment and related challenges in Baltimore City
TAT’s community organizing origins
Insights from interviews and participants’ living environments
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 23 Confederate monuments and the art of the Uprising: A hauntology of Baltimore
Contextualizing Specters of Marx
Lessons from Specters
Monuments
The art of the Uprising
Conclusion: Mourning, organizing, and the Ancestors
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 24 Protestant urban ministry and the “homosexual ghetto” in the 1960s
Religious and queer urban topographies
Glide Church and the Tenderloin
The Council on Religion and the Homosexual
From the Tenderloin to a national movement
Opening denominational debate
Conclusion
Notes
Chapter 25 Newcomers, residents, and the dynamics of conflict: Church, immigration, and the development of the city in Sweden
Immigration in Sweden and Stockholm—A background
The ideological view of, and debate about, immigration in Sweden until 2015
The situation in 2015
Two voices about what was done
Goda grannar
The parish of Västerled
Reactions to the events of 2015—A changing story
A story for creating a “we”—The basis for developing a functional society
Goda grannar—After the acute phase in 2015
The parish of Västerled—After the acute phase in 2015
A religious contribution to the city—Building a story of trust
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 26 The Rohingya refugee crisis: Religious identity as a source of expulsion, hospitality, and solidarity
Introduction
Concept, objectives, and study methods
History of persecutions
Religiosity in Cox’s Bazar
Changing landscape in Cox’s Bazar
Changing relationship
Survival and integration in Chittagong
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 27 Super-diversity inside and outside of congregations in Elmhurst, Queens
Micro-communities in the meta-neighborhood
Religious ecology and super-diversity
The geography of religion in Elmhurst
Different diversities in Elmhurst
Managing super-diversity in the religious ecology
Super-diversity and civic life
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 28 Religion and violence in the urban context
Violence: Personal, structural, cultural
What produces violence?
Violence is a public health problem, not a policing problem
Chicago and violence
What resources do religious people, ideas, and institutions bring to this problem?
Where can we see the impact of religion in Chicago’s violence-prone areas?
Can religion likewise be used for violent ends?
An unnamed solution to violent conflict: Peace and nonviolence
Summary and conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 29 Cities and the challenge of climate change: Imagining “Good Cities” in a time of dystopia
Time is a “frenemy”
The need for a kairotic public theology
A global research agenda
The advent of “extreme cities”
One such city …
A tale of two cities
Faith in the cities
Notes
Bibliography
Index