1st Edition
Spiritualizing the City Agency and Resilience of the Urban and Urbanesque Habitat
1. Introduction: spiritualizing the urban and the urbanesque
Victoria Hegner and Peter Jan Margry
Part I: The politics of religious plurality and identity
2. Local interfaith networks in urban integration politics: religious communities between innovation and cooptation
Eva Dick and Alexander-Kenneth Nagel
3. Preserving Catholic space and place in "The Rome of the West"
Tricia C. Bruce
Part II: Producing and negotiating religious space
4. Praying in Berlin’s Asiatown: religious place-making in a multi-ethnic bazaar
Gertrud Hüwelmeier
5. Framing the Pope within the urban space: John Paul II and the cityscape of Kraków
Anna Niedźwiedź
6. Religious mediations in a dense cityscape: experience of Catholic and Buddhist spaces in Hong Kong
Mariske Westendorp
7. Spiritualizing the suburbs: new religious architecture in suburban London and Vancouver
Claire Dwyer
8. Multiculturalism, veiling fashion and mosques: a religious topography of Islam in Berlin
Synnøve Bendixsen
Part III: The agency of body and senses in spiritualized practices
9. The dance floor as urban altar: how ecstatic dancers transform the lived experience of cities
Sarah M. Pike
10. A saxophone divine: experiencing the transformative power of Saint John Coltrane’s jazz music in San Francisco's Fillmore District
Peter Jan Margry and Daniel Wojcik
11. "Singing is prayer two times": a transnational perspective on "religious music," musical performance and urban religiosity in Cameroon and Switzerland
Raphaela von Weichs
Biography
Victoria Hegner is Senior Researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at the Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany.
Peter Jan Margry is Professor of European Ethnology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
