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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785393703321

Titolo

Discovering the spirit in the city / / edited by Andrew Walker and Aaron Kennedy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Continuum, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

1-282-82166-0

9786612821660

1-4411-1082-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Disciplina

204.4091732

Soggetti

Cities and towns - Religious aspects - Christianity

Spiritual life - Christianity

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.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 'Afternoon Prayer - Easter Saturday' (Pádraig Ó Tuama); 1 Rebuilding the Human City: Spirituality and social transformation; 2 Prayer in the Streets: The labyrinth as symbol and tool for an urban prayer life; 3 A Condition of Itinerant Being; 4 Experience Your Neighbour's Faith: Faith House, Manhattan; 5 Seeking in the City: An exploration of a new, post-secular spiritual phenomenon and its challenge to the Church; 6 The City of God in the Here and Now; 7 Discovering the Spirit in the City; 8 Spirituality and the City: After the deluge; 9 Music

10 Scripture and the City11 Human in the City; Appendix: A Teenage Perspective; Notes and References; Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

In an increasingly urban society, we are losing touch with our roots. There is a hunger to engage with the spiritual implications of this, and to enrich our appreciation of the spiritual potential of urban spaces.  Discovering the Spirit in the City  brings together established authors with new voices to explore ways in which the concrete, consumerist and cosmopolitan context we inhabit can be re-enchanted with a sense of the sacred. The international flavour of modern urban living is reflected in inter-faith and non-British perspectives.   The chapters are



interspersed with specially commissi