When God Comes to Town: Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts (Culture and Politics/Politics and Culture, Band 4)

ISBN 10: 1845455541 ISBN 13: 9781845455545

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2009

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Shows how urbanization influences the religiosity of everyday life in modern urban centres Explores how urbanization poses problems for traditional religions that are all rooted in rural, small-scale societies Questions appeal of these old religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, or Islam in urban societies Investigates impact on learning and on the performance and nature of ritual

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Rik Pinxten is Professor and Senior Researcher in Anthropology and Head of Department of Comparative Sciences of Culture at Ghent University, Belgium. His current research focus is on identity as a central mechanism in cultural and religious learning processes. He has published widely on the anthropology of knowledge and the comparative study of religion.

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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 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.

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• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1845455541
• ISBN 13: 9781845455545
• Einband: Bibliothekseinband
• Anzahl der Seiten: 166
• Herausgeber: Pinxten Rik, Dikomitis Lisa
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland