How might we best understand the relationship between the vibrant religious landscapes we see in many cities and contemporary urban social processes? Through case studies drawn from around the world, contributors explore the ways in which these processes interact in cities.
This book argues that religious events including rituals, processions, and festivals are not only choreographies of sacred traditions, but they are also creative disruptions that reveal how urban cultural hierarchies are experienced and contested. Exposing the power dynamics behind these events, this book shows how performative uses of urban space serve to destabilize dominant genealogies and lineages around urban identities just as they lay claims to cultural supremacy or heritage.
Through exploring the affective disruptions and political controversies caused by religious events, the contributors engage theoretical discussions in urban studies, the sociology of religion and the ethnography of ritual. This book is a significant contribution to understanding emerging patterns in contemporary religion and also for theories related to heritagization, eventization, and urbanization.
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Urban Religious Events: Public Spirituality in Contested Spaces is a truly enjoyable read. The lively writing creates a vivid picture of processions, festivals and spectacles from Moscow to Rio de Janeiro and Madrid. The innovative concept of urban religious events provides a convincing overall prism for analysis of events from lighting the hanukkiah in Barcelona, to jiu-jitsu parades in Brazil and practicing yoga on a bridge in Vancouver. * Lene Kühle, Professor of Sociology and Religion, Aarhus University, Denmark *
Papildus informācija
This book examines public expressions of religion in urban spaces around the world, to help understand the complexity of the transformation of contemporary religious formations.
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1 Introduction: Religious Events In Contemporary Cities |
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Part 1 After the Secular City: Religion and Urban Effervescence |
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2 Religion From The Street: Religious Expression In A Popular Colonia, Mexico City |
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3 Staging Green Spirituality In The Parks Of Lausanne And Geneva: A Spatial Approach To Urban Ecological Festivals |
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4 Constructing A Religioscape: The Case Of Pushkinskaya Square In Moscow |
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5 Festivals Of Religions And Religious Festivals: Heritigized Heterotopias |
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Part 2 The Politics of Religion in Urban Spaces: Power and Symbolism in the City |
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6 A Bridge Too Far: Yoga, Spirituality, And Contested Space In The Pacific Northwest |
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7 "It's the First Sukkah Since The Inquisition!": Jewish Celebrations In Public Spaces In Barcelona |
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8 Spatial Discourses Of Sanctity As A Means Of Struggle And Empowerment In A Contested City |
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9 Decoding Strategic Secularism In Madrid: Religion As Ambience In Three Scenarios |
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Part 3 Public Religious Events, Urban Transcendence, and Embodied Spirituality |
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10 Urbi Et Orbi: Pope Benedict's Visit To Berlin And The Emplacement Of Communicative Events |
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11 Turning Spirituality Into A Public Event: The Popularization Of Collective Meditations In The Urban Space |
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12 God's Warriors: Embodying Evangelical Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu In Rio De Janeiro |
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13 Feeling Sufis: An Essay On Intimate Religion In Berlin |
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| Notes |
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| Bibliography |
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| Notes on Contributors |
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Paul Bramadat is Professor and Director at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria, Canada. Mar Griera is Associate Professor and Director at the ISOR Research Centre, Universitat Autņnoma de Barcelona, Spain. Julia Martinez-Arińo is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Marian Burchardt is Professor of Sociology at Leipzig University, Germany.
