1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities
Like an ecosystem, cities develop, change, thrive, adapt, expand, and contract through the interaction of myriad components. Religion is one of those living parts, shaping and being shaped by urban contexts. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities is an outstanding interdisciplinary reference source to the key topics, problems, and methodologies of this cutting-edge subject. Representing a diverse array of cities and religions, the common analytical approach is ecological and spatial. It is the first collection of its kind and reflects state-of-the-art research focusing on the interaction of religions and their urban contexts. Comprising 29 chapters, by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into three parts:
- Research methodologies
- Religious frameworks and ideologies in urban contexts
- Contemporary issues in religion and cities
Within these sections, emerging research and analysis of current dynamics of urban religions are examined, including: housing, economics, and gentrification; sacred ritual and public space; immigration and the refugee crisis; political conflicts and social change; ethnic and religious diversity; urban policy and religion; racial justice; architecture and the built environment; religious art and symbology; religion and urban violence; technology and smart cities; the challenge of climate change for global cities; and religious meaning-making of the city.
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Cities is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and urban studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, history, architecture, urban planning, theology, social work, and cultural studies.
1 Introduction
Katie Day and Elise M. Edwards
Part I Research Methodologies
2 Studying Religion and Cities: Emergent Meanings and Methodologies
Katie Day
3 Ethnographic Approaches: Contextual Religious Cosmopolitanisms in Mumbai
István Keul
4 Eyes Upon the Street: Visual Social Scientific Approaches to Religion and the City
Roman R. Williams and Timothy Shortell
5 Architectural Analysis: Approaching the Study of Religion and Cities through the Built Environment
Elise M. Edwards
6 Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Mapping Jhandis in Little Guyana
Rupa Pillai
7 Infrastructure between Anthropology, Geography, and Religious Studies
Isaiah Ellis
Part II Religious Frameworks and Ideologies in Urban Contexts
8 Religion, Culture, and Urban Space: Chicago and American Religious History Beyond 1893
Isaiah Ellis
9 Faith in the Suburbs: Evangelical Christian Books about Suburban Life
Brian J. Miller
10 Who Defines the Religious Narrative for Justice? The Old Guard Meets the Avant-Garde in Nashville—The "It" City
Teresa L. Smallwood
11 A Feminist Theo-Ethic of Justice-Seeking-Love for Smart Urbanites
Samantha Cavanagh
12 (Irish) Neoliberalism’s Ruins: Ghost and Vacant Properties as Signposts of Idolatry
Kevin Hargaden
13 Religious Buildings and Ideological Conflicts: Broken Religious Sites and Unbroken Spatial Attachments in Jos North, Nigeria
Amidu Elabo
14 The Ephemeral City: Indonesian Piety on the Move
James Edmonds
15 Religious Space in Public Art: The New Negro and the New Deal in Harlem
Michael Mclaughlin
16 The Intersection of Immigration, Social Conflict, and Art: Dance and Identity in "East" Haifa
Amanda Furiasse
17 A Liberation Narrative of Religious Presence Amid the Protests: Hong Kong Theology
Tsz Him Lai
Part III Contemporary Issues in Religion and Cities
18 Religious Agency in the Dynamics of Gentrification: Moving in, Moving Out, and Staying Put in Philadelphia
Kristin E. Holmes
19 Urban Historic Sacred Places in Transition: Partners for Sacred Places
Rachel Hildebrandt and Chad Martin
20 Praying with our Feet: Interfaith Rituals of Disruption and Sanctification in the Public Square
Linda Noonan
21 Community Organizing and Congregational Agency in Shaping City Life
Trey Hammond and Phil Tom
22 Discourse of Faith and Power: Turnaround Tuesday, a Case Study in Baltimore
Isabella Cronin Favazza
23 Confederate Monuments and the Art of the Uprising: A Hauntology of Baltimore
Marcos Bisticas-Cocoves and Harold D. Morales
24 Protestant Urban Ministry and the "Homosexual Ghetto" in the 1960s
Heather R. White
25 Newcomers, Residents, and the Dynamics of Conflict: Church, Immigration, and the Development of the City in Sweden
Niclas Blåder
26 The Rohingya Refugee Crisis: Religious Identity as a Source of Expulsion, Hospitality, and Solidarity
M Ala Uddin
27 Super-Diversity Inside and Outside of Congregations in Elmhurst, Queens
Richard Cimino and Hans Tokke
28 Religion and Violence in the Urban Context
Elfriede Wedam and Ryan Sc Wong
29 Cities and the Challenge of Climate Change: Imagining "Good Cities" in a Time of Dystopia
Clive Pearson
Biography
Katie Day is the Charles A. Schieren Professor Emerita in Church and Society at United Lutheran Seminary, USA.
Elise M. Edwards is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Baylor University, USA.
