Urban Religious Events

Author : Paul Bramadat,Mar Griera,Marian Burchardt,Julia Martinez-Ariño
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350175488

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Urban Religious Events by Paul Bramadat,Mar Griera,Marian Burchardt,Julia Martinez-Ariño Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Bramadat,Mar Griera,Marian Burchardt,Julia Martinez-Ariño
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350175495

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Urban Religious Events by Paul Bramadat,Mar Griera,Marian Burchardt,Julia Martinez-Ariño Pdf

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.

Author : Victoria Hegner,Peter Jan Margry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317396680

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Spiritualizing the City by Victoria Hegner,Peter Jan Margry Pdf

Urban spaces have always functioned as cradles and laboratories for religious movements and spiritualities. The urban forms a central and nourishing agent for the creation of new religious expressions, and continually negotiates new ways of being spiritual and establishing spiritual ideas and practices. This book explores the intense and complex interplay between the (post) modern city and new religious and spiritual movement, bringing the city and its annexes into the foreground of current research into religion. It develops a new, ethnography-based analysis of the ways in which the pluralist experience of the "urban" inscribes itself into various religious practices and vice versa: how do religiosity and spirituality appropriate and transform meanings of the urban? It focuses on new religious expressions, cosmologies and ways of life that go beyond established belief systems and religious understandings, and explores new conceptions of the word "urban" in a world of increasingly extended urban environments. The book examines how cities are both considered as sites and sources of spirituality, where the globalization of religions takes place as well as the fact that globalization is linked closely to the process of localization. The socio-cultural and political uniqueness of the specific urban context are analyzed to present an innovative perspective on how the interplay between the urban, spiritual and religious should be understood. This book brings a timely new perspective and will be of interest to academics and students in geography, sociology, urban studies, cultural studies and anthropology, as well as for urban planners and policy makers.

Author : Suzan Folkerts
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 2503590810

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Religious Connectivity in Urban Communities (1400-1550) by Suzan Folkerts Pdf

The boundaries between sacred and secular in the late Middle Ages, traditionally perceived as separate domains, are nowadays perceived as porous or non-existent. This collection on religious connectivity explores a new approach to religious culture in the late Middle Ages. In assessing the porosity of the domains of sacred and secular, and of religious and lay, the contributors to this collection investigate processes of transfer of religious knowledge, literature, and artefacts, and the people involved. Religious connectivity describes people in networks. This concept emphasises dynamics and processes rather than stability, and focuses on all persons involved in transfer and appropriation, not just the producers. It is therefore a fruitful concept by which to explore medieval society and the continuum of sacred and secular. By using the lens of religious connectivity, the authors of this collection shed new light on religious activities and religious culture in late medieval urban communities.

Author : Rik Pinxten,Lisa Dikomitis
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1845455541

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When God Comes to Town by Rik Pinxten,Lisa Dikomitis Pdf

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.

Author : Julia Martínez-Ariño
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000059038

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Governing Religious Diversity in Cities by Julia Martínez-Ariño Pdf

Governing Religious Diversity in Cities provides original insights into the governance of religious diversity in urban contexts from a variety of theoretical perspectives, and drawing on a wide range of empirical examples in Europe and Canada. Religious diversity is increasingly present and visible in cities across the world. Drawing on a wide selection of cases in Europe and Canada, this volume examines how this diversity is governed. While focusing on the urban dimension of governance, the chapters do not examine cities in isolation but take into account the interconnections between urban contexts and other scales, both within and beyond the borders of the nation-state. The contributors discuss a variety of empirical examples, ranging from the controversies around the celebration of the International Yoga Day in Vancouver, the mosque not built in Munich, and the governance of Islam in cities in France, Germany, Italy, Quebec and Spain. Adopting a critical perspective, they shed light on the factors shaping different governance patterns, and on their implications for various religious groups. Ultimately, this book shows that governing religious diversity is not a matter of black and white. Contributing to a growing field of academic research that focuses on the governance of religion in urban contexts, and providing lines for future research, Governing Religious Diversity in Cities will be of great interest to scholars in the sociology of religion, religious studies and urban studies. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Religion, State & Society.

Author : Robert A. Orsi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253113318

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Gods of the City by Robert A. Orsi Pdf

"Fascinating insights into modern urban religious practice make Orsi's collection a must-read." -- Publishers Weekly "The essays provide insight into the cultural creativity, reinterpretation of worship and religious ingenuity of city people over the last 50 years." -- Library Journal "At last, a major dissection of the great mystery in modern Americanlife -- how religion and spirituality prospered amidst industrialization,urbanization, and rampant technological change after 1880!" -- Jon Butler, Yale University "Urban religion" strikes many as an oxymoron. How can religion thrive in the alienated, secular, fast-paced, and materialistic world of the modern, Western city? The authors in this collection believe that cities not only can provide the settings for religious expression, but also are material to the experiences which give rise to those religious expressions. In this book, they explore the distinctly urban forms of religious experience and practice that have developed in relation to the spaces, social conditions, and history of American cities.

Author : David Wiley McDowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032613858

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Education and Occupational and Residential Mobility in an Urban Nigerian Community by David Wiley McDowell Pdf

Author : Martin D. Stringer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317149736

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Discourses on Religious Diversity by Martin D. Stringer Pdf

Religious diversity is an ever present, and increasingly visible, reality in cities across the world. It is an issue of immediate concern to city leaders and members of religious communities but do we really know what ordinary members of the public, the people who live in the city, really think about it? Major news items, inter-religious violence and notorious public events often lead to negative views being expressed, especially among those who would not consider themselves to have a religious identity of their own. Martin Stringer explores the highly complex series of discourses around religion and religious diversity that are held by ordinary members of the city; discourses that are often contradictory in themselves and discourses that show that attitudes to religion vary considerably depending on context and wider local or national narratives. Drawing on examples from UK (particularly Birmingham, one of the UK's most diverse cities), Europe and the United States, Stringer offers some practical suggestions for ways in which discourses of religious diversity can be managed in the future. Students in the fields of religious studies, sociology, anthropology and urban studies; practitioners involved in inter-religious debates; and church and other faith leaders and politicians should all find this book an invaluable addition to ongoing debates.

Author : Paul Bramadat,Patricia O'Connell Killen,Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774867658

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Religion at the Edge by Paul Bramadat,Patricia O'Connell Killen,Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme Pdf

The Cascadia bioregion – British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon – has long been at the forefront of cultural shifts occurring throughout North America, in particular regarding religious institutions, ideas, and practices. Religion at the Edge explores the rise of religious “nones,” the decline of mainstream Christian denominations, spiritual and environmental innovation, increasing religious pluralism, and the growth of smaller, more traditional faith groups. The first research-driven book to address religion, spirituality, and irreligion in the Pacific Northwest, past and present, Religion at the Edge expands our understanding of the nature, scale, and implications of socio-religious changes in North America, and the relevance of regionalism to that discussion.

Author : Paul Bramadat,Patricia O'Connell Killen,Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0774867639

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Religion at the Edge by Paul Bramadat,Patricia O'Connell Killen,Sarah Wilkins-Laflamme Pdf

Religion at the Edge shows how the distinctive social and physical landscape of the Pacific Northwest proves fertile ground for an expansive exploration of contemporary spirituality and secularity.

Author : Ira G. Zepp
Publisher : Christian Classic
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:39000004209537

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The New Religious Image of Urban America by Ira G. Zepp Pdf

Author : Narendra Bokhare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Hinduism
ISBN : UOM:39015041100630

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Religion and Magic in Urban Setting by Narendra Bokhare Pdf

Study of religion and magic in Pune, India.

Author : Peter E. Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997-02-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556025477423

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Quality Management in Urban Tourism by Peter E. Murphy Pdf

Quality Management in Urban Tourism is the first book to introduce the concept of quality management to urban tourism. It brings together theoretical and case study contributions from leaders in the field, both in academic research and tourism management.

Author : Chantal Fiola
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887559358

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Returning to Ceremony by Chantal Fiola Pdf

Returning to Ceremony is the follow-up to Chantal Fiola’s award-winning Rekindling the Sacred Fire and continues her ground-breaking examination of Métis spirituality, debunking stereotypes such as “all Métis people are Catholic,” and “Métis people do not go to ceremonies.” Fiola finds that, among the Métis, spirituality exists on a continuum of Indigenous and Christian traditions, and that Métis spirituality includes ceremonies. For some Métis, it is a historical continuation of the relationships their ancestral communities have had with ceremonies since time immemorial, and for others, it is a homecoming – a return to ceremony after some time away. Fiola employs a Métis-specific and community-centred methodology to gather evidence from archives, priests’ correspondence, oral history, storytelling, and literature. With assistance from six Métis community researchers, Fiola listened to stories and experiences shared by thirty-two Métis from six Manitoba Métis communities that are at the heart of this book. They offer insight into their families’ relationships with land, community, culture, and religion, including factors that inhibit or nurture connection to ceremonies such as sweat lodge, Sundance, and the Midewiwin. Valuable profiles emerge for six historic Red River Métis communities (Duck Bay, Camperville, St Laurent, St François-Xavier, Ste Anne, and Lorette), providing a clearer understanding of identity, culture, and spirituality that uphold Métis Nation sovereignty.