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Religion and Community in the New Urban America examines the interrelated transformations of cities and urban congregations over the past several decades. The authors ask how the new metropolis affects local religious communities, and what the role of those local religious communities is in creating the new metropolis. Through an in-depth study of fifteen Chicago congregations--Catholic parishes, Protestant churches, Jewish synagogues, Muslim mosques, and a Hindu temple, city and suburban, neighborhood-based and commuter--this book describes the lives of their members and measures the influences of those congregations on urban environments. Paul D. Numrich and Elfriede Wedam challenge the view held by many urban studies scholars that religion plays a small role--if any--in shaping postindustrial cities and that religious communities merely adapt to urban structures in a passive fashion. Taking into account the spatial distribution of constituents, internal traits, and external actions, each congregation's urban impact is plotted on a continuum of weak, to moderate, to strong, thus providing a nuanced understanding of the significance of religion in the contemporary urban context. Providing a thoughtful analysis that includes several original maps illustrating such things as membership distribution for each congregation, the authors offer an insightful look into urban community life today, from congregations to the social-geographic places in which they are embedded.
Contents
Foreword by Martin D. Stringer ; Preface and Acknowledgements ; Introduction: The New Urban Era and the Religion Factor ; Part I: Theoretical and Conceptual Framework ; Chapter 1: Adding Religion to Chicago's Story ; Chapter 2: Community and Congregations in the New Metropolis ; Part II: Congregational Case Studies ; Chapter 3: Neighborhood Parishes and Churches in a Restructuring City ; Chapter 4: Area Mosques and Diverse Corridors ; Chapter 5: Area Congregations in the City ; Chapter 6: Area Congregations in a Suburban Boom Town ; Chapter 7: Metro Congregations: A Wider View of the Restructuring Metropolis ; Part III: Religion's Urban Significance: Chicago and Beyond ; Chapter 8: Congregations and Change: Interpreting Religion's Significance in the New Metropolis ; Afterword: A Case for Representativeness ; Appendix A: Research Methods ; Appendix B: Questionnaire ; Appendix C: Field Notes on Worship Services ; Appendix D: Protocol for In-Depth Study of Religious Congregations ; Bibliography ; Index
