When God comes to town : religious traditions in urban contexts / edited by Rik Pinxten & Lisa Dikomitis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pinxten, Rik.

Dikomitis, Lisa.

Series:

Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture, 4

Culture and politics/politics and culture series ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and sociology.

Cities and towns--Religious aspects.

Cities and towns.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (166 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, c2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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 wonder 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 togeth

Contents:

Title page-When God Comes to Town; Contents; Figures; 00b Pinxten_fm intro.pdf; Introduction: When God Comes to Town; Part I-Nation Versus Church; Religion and Nationality: The Tangled Greek Case; A Church Lost in the Maze of a City Without Refferences; Part II-Urban Tranformations; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Urbanism; The Ecology and Economy of Urban Religious Space: A Socio-Historical Account of Quakers in Town; Part III-Urban Migration; Rural Immigrants and Official Religion in an Urban Religious Festival in Greece

From the City to the Village and Back: Greek Cypriot Refugees Engaging in 'Pilgrimages' across the BorderPart IV-Impact of Modernity; Modernity Contra Tradition? Taijiquan's Struggle for Survival: A Chinese Case Study; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80758-172-1

0-85745-823-X

1-282-62779-1

9786612627798

1-84545-920-2

OCLC:

645100540