UID:
almafu_9959265896902883
Format:
1 online resource (X, 240 p.)
ISBN:
9783110634426
Content:
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 awaiting historical investigation is the specific urban character of religious ideas, practices and institutions and the role of urban space shaping this very 'religion' in the course of history. The time-span from the Hellenistic age to Late Antiquity was crucial in the establishment of concepts and institutions of 'religion' and witnessed extended waves of urbanisation, Rome being central to this. In addressing this problem, this book fills a significant gap in the scholarship on urban religion across time. Taking seriously the proposition that space is condition, medium and outcome of social relations, the development of 'urban religion' in lived urban space and urban culture or urbanity offers a lens onto processes of religious change that have been neglected for the history of religion and for the study of urbanism. The key thesis is that city-space engineered the major changes that revolutionised religions.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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Introduction: Urban religion in a historical perspective --
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1. Looking at religion in the city --
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2. Before urban religion: Fustel de Coulanges and narratives of civic religion --
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3. Urbanising and urbanised religion --
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4. Presupposing the city: Philosophical piety as urbanised religion --
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5. Crafting complex place: Religion and urban development --
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6. Materiality of religion in urban space: Neighbourhoods of a metropolis --
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7. Urban resilience and religion: Attaching time to place --
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8. Urban Selves: Individualisation in urban space --
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9. Urbanity and multiple religious identities --
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Conclusion: Religion and urbanity --
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References --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110631364
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110628685
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110634426
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110634426
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110634426
