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Religious Pluralism and the City: Inquiries into Postsecular Urbanism

Religious Pluralism and the City: Inquiries into Postsecular Urbanism

Berking, Helmuth
Steets, Silke
Schwenk, Jochen

Hardcover

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place

Religion General General ChristianityGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1350037680
ISBN13: 9781350037687
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Apr 5 2018
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Religious Pluralism and the City challenges the notion that the city is a secular place, and calls for an analysis of how religion and the city are intertwined. It is the first book to analyze the explanatory value of a number of typologies already in use around this topic - from holy city to secular city, from fundamentalist to postsecular city. By intertwining the city and religion, urban theory and theories of religion, this is the first book to provide an international and interdisciplinary analysis of post-secular urbanism.

The book argues that, given the rise of religiously inspired violence and the increasing significance of charismatic Christianity, Islam and other spiritual traditions, the master narrative that modern societies are secular societies has lost its empirical plausibility. Instead, we are seeing the pluralization of religion, the co-existence of different religious worldviews, and the simultaneity of secular and religious institutions that shape everyday life. These particular constellations of religious pluralism are, above all, played out in cities.

Including contributions from Peter L. Berger and Nezar Alsayyad, this book conceptually and empirically revokes the dissolution between city and religion to unveil its intimate relationship, and offers an alternative view on the quotidian state of the global urban condition.

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