ISBN:
9780520281226
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (485 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Handbook of Religion and the Asian City
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Handbook of religion and the Asian city
DDC:
200.95/091732
Keywords:
Asia ; Religious life and customs
;
Cities and towns ; Asia
;
Cities and towns ; Religious aspects
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City dwellers ; Religious life ; Asia
;
City planning ; Asia
;
City planning ; Religious aspects
;
Religion and politics ; Asia
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Städtebaupolitik
;
Asien
;
Stadtplanung
;
Religiöse Identität
;
Stadtgestaltung
;
Religion
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Stadtbevölkerung
;
Religiöses Leben
;
Kirchliches Leben
;
Volkskultur
;
Religionssoziologie
Abstract:
Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities. It does not assume that religion is of the past and that the urban is secular, but instead points out that urban politics and governance are often about religious boundaries and processions-in short, that public religion is politics. The essays in this book show how projects of secularism come up against projects and ambitions of a religious nature, a particular form of contestation that takes the city as its public arena.Questioning the limits of cities like Mumbai
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; HANDBOOK OF RELIGION AND THE ASIAN CITY; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Urban Theory, Asia, and Religion; PART 1. GOVERNANCE OF RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY; 1. In Place of Ritual: Global City, Sacred Space, and the Guanyin Temple in Singapore; 2. The City and the Pagoda: Buddhist Spatial Tactics in Shanghai; 3. Territorial Cults and the Urbanization of the Chinese World: A Case Study of Suzhou; 4. Global and Religious: Urban Aspirations and the Governance of Religions in Metro Manila; 5. The Muharram Procession of Mumbai: From Seafront to Cemetery
Description / Table of Contents:
6. Urban Processions: Colonial Decline and Revival as Heritage in Postcolonial Hong KongPART 2. SPACE, SPECULATION, AND RELIGION; 7. Urban Megachurches and Contentious Religious Politics in Seoul; 8. Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good (Trust) Deeds: Parsis, Risk, and Real Estate in Mumbai; 9. The Urban Development and Heritage Contestation of Bangkok's Chinatown; 10. Dealing with the Dragon: Urban Planning in Hanoi; 11. Contested Religious Space in Jakarta: Negotiating Politics, Capital, and Ethnicity; 12. Urban Buddhism in the Thai Postmetropolis; PART 3. RELIGIOUS PLACE MAKING IN THE CITY
Description / Table of Contents:
13. From Village to City: Hinduism and the "Hindu Caste System"14. The Politics of Desecularization: Christian Churches and North Korean Migrants in Seoul; 15. Parallel Universes: Chinese Temple Networks in Singapore, or What Is Missing in the Singapore Model?; PART 4. SELF-FASHIONING IN URBAN SPACE; 16. The Flexibility of Religion: Buddhist Temples as Multiaspirational Sites in Contemporary Beijing; 17. Cultivating Happiness: Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Well-Being in a Transforming Urban China
Description / Table of Contents:
18. Other Christians as Christian Others: Signs of New Christian Populations and the Urban Expansion of Seoul19. Aspiring in Karachi: Breathing Life into the City of Death; 20. Can Commodities Be Sacred? Material Religion in Seoul and Hanoi; PART 5. MEDIA AND MATERIALITY; 21. Cinema and Karachi in the 1960s: Cultural Wounds and National Cohesion; 22. The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood; 23. Media, Urban Aspirations, and Religious Mobilization among Twelver Shi'ites in Mumbai; 24. Internet Hindus: Right-Wingers as New India's Ideological Warriors; List of Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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