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Urban religion : a historical approach to urban growth and religious change /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rüpke, Jörg (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : Walter De Gruyter, [2020]
Subjects:
Cities and towns > Religious aspects.
Change > Religious aspects.
Cities and towns > Growth.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Urban religion in a historical perspective
  • Looking at religion in the city
  • Before urban religion: Fustel de Coulanges and narratives of civic religion
  • Urbanising and urbanised religion
  • Presupposing the city: philosophical piety as urbanised religion
  • Crafting complex place: religion and urban development
  • Materiality of religion in urban space: neighbourhoods of a metropolis
  • Urban resilience and religion: attaching time to place
  • Urban selves: individualisation in urban space
  • Urbanity and multiple religious identities
  • Conclusion: Religion and urbanity.