Religion, Migration and the 'Wording' of Urban Daily Life: Local and Transnational Pentecostalism in Rio De Janeiro / Gerda Heck and Stephan Lanz. Urban Planning and Secular Atheism in Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore / Peter van der Veer -- Occupying the Global City: Spatial Politics and Spiritual Warfare among African Pentecostals in Hong Kong / Benjamin Kirby -- Pentecostal Productions of Locality: Urban Risks and Spiritual Protection in Cape Town / Marian Burchardt -- 'The Future as News': Astrology and Mediated Religion in Global Bangalore / Sahana Udupa -- Theorizing Mediatization and Religious Agency in European Global Cities / David Herbert -- Godlessness in the Global City / Lois Lee -- Marching for Jesus in Paris: Religious Territorialization, Public Space and the Appropriation of Centrality in a Fragmented City / Yannick Fer and Gwendoline Malogne-Fer -- Transnational religion, Multiculturalism and Global Suburbs: a Case Study from Vancouver / Claire Dwyer -- Place and the (Un-)making of Religious Peripheries: Weddings among Kenyan Pentecostals in London / Leslie Fesenmyer -- At Home in the Multicultural City: Islam and Religious Place-Making in Stuttgart, Germany / Petra Kuppinger -- Religion as 'Urban White Noise'-Material Practices of Everyday Religion at the 'Unquiet Frontiers' of the Hyper-Diverse City / Chris Baker -- Between Wandering and Staying Put: Piety and Urban Mobility among Young Somali Women in Multicultural London / Guilia Liberatore -- Religion, Migration and the 'Wording' of Urban Daily Life: Local and Transnational Pentecostalism in Rio De Janeiro / Gerda Heck and Stephan Lanz.
Summary:
This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by aspects of global city dynamics. Theoretically grounded and empirically informed, the book advances discussions in the field of urban religion, and establishes future research directions. The editors bring together a wealth of ethnographically rich and vivid case studies in a diversity of urban settings, in both Global North and Global South contexts. These case studies are drawn from both 'classical' global cities such as New York, London and Paris, and also from large cosmopolitan metropolises - such as Bangalore, Rio de Janeiro, Lagos, Tel Aviv and Hong Kong - which all constitute, in their own terms, powerful sites within the informational, cultural and moral networked economies of contemporary globalization. The chapters explore some of the most pressing issues of our times: globalization and the role of global neo-liberal regimes; urban change and in particular the dramatic urbanization of Global South countries; and religious politics and religious revivalism associated, for instance, with transnational Islam or global Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity.
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