03294nam 22006374a 450 991081142500332120200520144314.00-85745-823-X1-282-62779-197866126277981-84545-920-210.1515/9781845459208(CKB)2560000000012075(EBL)544291(OCoLC)645100540(SSID)ssj0000444695(PQKBManifestationID)12140144(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000444695(PQKBWorkID)10471029(PQKB)11556440(MiAaPQ)EBC544291(DE-B1597)636882(DE-B1597)9781845459208(EXLCZ)99256000000001207520081217d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWhen God comes to town religious traditions in urban contexts /edited by Rik Pinxten & Lisa DikomitisNew York Berghahn Booksc20091 online resource (166 p.)Culture and politics/politics and culture series ;v. 4Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-807-8 1-84545-554-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Title page-When God Comes to Town; Contents; Figures; 00b Pinxten_fm intro.pdf; Introduction: When God Comes to Town; Part I-Nation Versus Church; Religion and Nationality: The Tangled Greek Case; A Church Lost in the Maze of a City Without Refferences; Part II-Urban Tranformations; The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Urbanism; The Ecology and Economy of Urban Religious Space: A Socio-Historical Account of Quakers in Town; Part III-Urban Migration; Rural Immigrants and Official Religion in an Urban Religious Festival in GreeceFrom the City to the Village and Back: Greek Cypriot Refugees Engaging in 'Pilgrimages' across the BorderPart IV-Impact of Modernity; Modernity Contra Tradition? Taijiquan's Struggle for Survival: A Chinese Case Study; Notes on Contributors; IndexAround 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number is expected to have gone up to some seventy per cent. This poses problems for traditional religions that are all rooted in rural, small-scale societies. The authors in this volume wonder what the possible appeal of these old religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, or Islam could be in the new urban environment and, conversely, what impact global urbanization will have on learning and on the performance and nature of ritual. Anthropologists, historians and political scientists have come togethCulture and Politics/Politics and Culture, 4Religion and sociologyCities and townsReligious aspectsReligion and sociology.Cities and townsReligious aspects.200.9173/2Pinxten Rik1033435Dikomitis Lisa1679983MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811425003321When God comes to town4048627UNINA