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1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors ; Framing the Sacred in the City: An Introduction; The City ; Untitled; The Sacred ; Mapping the Sacred in the City: An Overview ; Bibliography ; Part One The Sacred and the City: -Theoretical Approaches; Chapter 1 Sacred Horror Vacui. A Philosophical Reflection; Two Exemplary Places ; Place and Non-place in Supermodernity ; Losing the Sacred ; Consensual Unity versus Ritual Unity ; Retrieving the Sacred ; Non-place and the Urban Jungle |
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Craving for Recognition in the City. Towards a Deepened Understanding of the Complexities of PluralPrecious Public Space ; Notes; Bibliography ; Chapter 2 The Urbanization of Society: Towards a Cultural Analysis of the Sacred in the Mo; On the Conceptual History of the Sacred ; The Sacred and the Modern Metropolis ; The Sacred and the Modern Metropolis ; Sacred Sociology as a Cultural Analysis of Modern Society ; The Everyday Life and the Urbanization of Society ; Towards a Cultural Analysis of the Sacred in the Modern Metropolis ; Notes ; Bibliography |
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Chapter 3 The Lingering Smell of Incense: Exploring Post-secular Public SpaceUrban Public Space ; The Post-secular City ; Atheist Buses in the Streets of London ; Republican and Communitarian Conceptions of the Public ; Liberal Approaches ; Post-secular Public Space ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Part Two Religion, Built Environments and Urban Societies; Chapter 4 Religion in the Built Environment: Aesth/Ethics, Ritual and Memory in Lived Urban Space; The Sacred in the Non-sacred ; Lived Religion in Lived Space ; Aesth/ethics ; Ritualization; Remembrance versus Urban Amnesia |
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'In a land that I will show you' Notes ; Bibliography ; Chapter 5 Kinhin in a Megacity -- Implicit Meanings of the 'Walking-in-the-Park'-Mov; Preliminary Remarks ; The 'Walking-in-the-Park'-Movement -- A Short Introduction ; The 'Walking-in-the-Park'-Movement and its Buddhist Spirit ; The 'Walking-in-the-Park'-Movement and Its Implicit References to Monja Coen's Biography ; The 'Walking-in-the-Park'-Movement against the Hostile Conditions of a Megacity ; The 'Walking-in-the-Park'-Movement as a Symbolic Expression of Contemporary Brazilian Buddhism; Concluding Remarks ; Notes ; Bibliography |
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Chapter 6 Life Stance and Religious Identity in an Urbanized World: The Meaning of Life asMaking Sense in the City1 ; Augustine on the Human Predicament ; The Old and the New Worlds ; New Themes and Engagements ; Note; Bibliography ; Part Three Sacred Symbols, Sacred Spaces; Chapter 7 Sacred Symbols of the City: Babel, Barbara and their Towers; Introduction; The Tower of Babel as an Icon of Cultural Criticism and Political Resistance ; The Ambivalent Biblical Text of the Tower of Babel Story |
| Summary |
This book reflects the way in which the city interacts with the sacred in all its many guises, with religion and the human search for meaning in life. As the process of urbanization of society is accelerating thus giving an increasing importance to cities and the ''metropolis'', it is relevant to investigate the social or cultural cohesion that these urban agglomerations manifest. Religion is keenly observed as witnessing a growth, crucially impacting cultural and political dynamics, as well as determining the emergence of new sacred symbols and their inscription in urban spaces worldwide. The. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Gḿez, Liliana, editor.
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Herck, Walter van, 1962- editor.
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Bergmann, Sigurd, contributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sacred in the city. London, England ; New York : Continuum, ©2012 xii, 265 pages 9781472526052 |
| ISBN |
9781441188106 (electronic book) |
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144118810X (electronic book) |
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9781472526052 |
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