The fundamentalist city? : religiosity and the remaking of urban space / / edited by Nezar AlSayyad and Mejgan Massoumi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785267003321
• Autore: AlSayyad Nezar
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-92120-6; 1-136-92121-4; 1-282-78103-0; 9786612781032; 0-203-84459-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MassoumiMejgan
• Disciplina: 201/.630776091724
• Soggetti: Religion and geography; Cities and towns - Religious aspects; City planning - Religious aspects; Religion and sociology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; The Contributors; Part I: Fundamentalisms: Between City and Nation; Chapter 1: The Fundamentalist City?; Chapter 2: Why in the City? Explaining Urban Fundamentalism; Chapter 3: The Civility of Inegalitarian Citizenships; Part II: Fundamentalisms and Urbanism; Chapter 4: American National Identity, the Rise of the Modern City, and the Birth of Protestant Fundamentalism; Chapter 5: Producing and Contesting the 'Communalized City': Hindutva Politics and Urban Space in Ahmedabad; Chapter 6: On Religiosity and Spatiality: Lessons from Hezbollah in BeirutChapter 7: Hamas in Gaza Refugee Camps: The Construction of Trapped Spaces for the Survival of Fundamentalism; Part III: Identity, Tradition, and Fundamentalisms; Chapter 8: Abraham's Urban Footsteps: Political Geography and Religious Radicalism in Israel/Palestine; Chapter 9: Fundamentalism at the Urban Frontier: the Taliban in Peshawar; Chapter 10: Taking the (Inner) City for God: Ambiguities of Urban Social Engagement among Conservative White ; Evangelicals; Chapter 11: Postsecular Urbanisms: Situating Delhi within the Rhetorical Landscape of HindutvaChapter 12: Excluding and Including the 'Other' in the Global City: Religious Mission among Muslim and Catholic Migrants in London; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundamentalisms are produced, represented, and practiced in the city. It attempts to establish a relationship between two important phenomena: the historic transition of the majority of the world's population from a rural to an urban existence; and the robust resurgence of religion as a major force in the shaping of contemporary life in many parts of the world. Employing a transnational interrogation anchored in specific geographic regions, t