TY - BOOK AU - Becci,Irene AU - Burchardt,Marian AU - Casanova,Jose Maria TI - Topographies of Faith: Religion in Urban Spaces T2 - International Studies in Religion and Society Ser. SN - 9789004249073 AV - BL65.C57 -- T67 2013eb U1 - 200.91732 PY - 2013/// CY - Leiden PB - BRILL KW - Cities and towns -- Religious aspects KW - Religion and geography KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Topographies of Faith -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Religion Takes Place: Producing Urban Locality -- PART 1: RELIGIOUS INNOVATIONS IN URBAN CONTEXTS -- Alevis in Cemevis: Religion and Secularism in Turkey -- Somalis in Johannesburg: Muslim Transformations of the City -- Urban Aspirations in Mumbai and Singapore -- Excarnation and the City: The Tower of Silence Debates in Mumbai -- PART 2: URBAN DYNAMICS OF MIGRATION, RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND TRANSNATIONAL RELIGION -- Connecting the Local, National and Transnational Powers of a Religious Youth Organisation in Berlin -- Religious Associations, Religious Innovations and Denominational Identities in Contemporary Global Cities -- The Geopolitics of Religious Spatiality and Falun Gong's Campaign in New York -- PART 3: RELIGION, ECONOMIC INEQUALITIES AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION -- Religious Involvements in a Post-Socialist Urban Space in Berlin -- Belonging and Success: Religious Vitality and the Politics of Urban Space in Cape Town -- Porous Boundaries: Hindu-Muslim Demarcation and Crossings in Delhi -- 'Exit' and 'Inclusion': The Changing Paradigm of Pentecostal Expression in the Nigerian Public Space -- Index N2 - Based on ethnographic explorations in cities across the globe, Topographies of Faith offers a unique and compelling analysis of religious dynamics in metropolitan centers. It creatively draws on perspectives from urban studies to explore the spatiality of religion in modern cities UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/buse-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1170067 ER -