基本説明
Draws a nuanced picture of the different layers of religion of the sacred and its diverse forms within the city.
Full Description
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 sacred has become an important category of a new interpretation of social and cultural transformation processes. From a unique broader perspective, the volume focuses on the relationship between the city and the sacred. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, combining the expertise of philosophers, historians, architects, social geographers, sociologists and anthropologists, it draws a nuanced picture of the different layers of religion, of the sacred and its diverse forms within the city, with examples from Europe, South America and the Caribbean, and Africa.
Contents
Introduction; Part I: The Sacred and the City: Theoretical Approaches; 1. Recognition and Urban Public Space: A Philosophical Reflection, Walter Van Herck; 2.The Urbanization of Society: Towards a Cultural Analysis of the Sacred in Urban Space, Liliana Gomez; 3.The Sacred and the Creation of the Urban Public Domain. Exploring the Post-secular Public Sphere, Pieter Dronkers; Part II: Religion, Built Environments and Urban Societies; 4. Religion in the Built Environment: Aesth/Ethics, Ritual and Memory in Lived Urban Space, Sigurd Bergmann; 5. Urbanity and Spirituality: On the Alleged Profanity of Metropolitan Life, Jan-Hendrik Bakker; 6. Embracing Trees in a Hostile Environment: Reflections on the Zen-Buddhist Movement "Caminhada no Parque" in the City of Sao, Paulo Frank Usarski; 7. The Meaning of Life for the Urbanite: Religious and Atheist Positioning in an Urbanized World, Rik Pinxten & Lisa Dikomitis; Part III: Sacred Symbols, Sacred Spaces; 8. Sacred Symbols of the City: Babel, Barbara and Their Towers, Anne-Marie Korte; 9. Elemental Microcosms: Sacred Space and the City, Renee Kohler-Ryan; 10. Relocating and Negotiating the Sacred: The Reception of the Chapel in in a Shopping Mall, Anne Birgitta Pessi & Peter Nynas; Part IV: Politics of the Sacred in Contemporary Urban Spaces; 11. Kinshasa and its (Un)Certainties: The Polis and the Sacred, Filip De Boeck; 12. Modernity, Resistance and the Politics of a Sacred Sense of Place, Haim Jacobi; 12. Urban Culture and Syncretism in Havana: The Search for the Sacred in the City, Liliana Gomez; 13. Remaking Sacred Spaces in the Postsoviet Urban Landscape in Ukraine, Catherine Wanner; Bibliography; Index.
