Religion and the Global City Contributor(s): Garbin, David (Editor), Strhan, Anna (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1350094633 ISBN-13: 9781350094635 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $46.48 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
Dewey: 201.727 |
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.02 lbs) 336 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by aspects of global city dynamics. Theoretically grounded and empirically informed, Religion and the Global City advances discussions in the field of urban religion, and establishes future research directions. David Garbin and Anna Strhan bring together a wealth of ethnographically rich and vivid case studies in a diversity of urban settings, in both Global North and Global South contexts. These case studies are drawn from both 'classical' global cities such as London and Paris, and also from large cosmopolitan metropolises - such as Bangalore, Rio de Janeiro, Lagos, Singapore and Hong Kong - which all constitute, in their own terms, powerful sites within the informational, cultural and moral networked economies of contemporary globalization. The chapters explore some of the most pressing issues of our times: globalization and the role of global neo-liberal regimes; urban change and in particular the dramatic urbanization of Global South countries; and religious politics and religious revivalism associated, for instance, with transnational Islam or global Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity. |
Contributor Bio(s): Garbin, David: - David Garbin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent, UK. His research focuses on the interplay of migration, ethnicity, diaspora, space and religion, in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, North America, South Asia and Central Africa.Strhan, Anna: - Anna Strhan is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Religious Studies at the University of Kent, UK |