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



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Autore: AlSayyad Nezar Visualizza persona
Titolo: The fundamentalist city? : religiosity and the remaking of urban space / / edited by Nezar AlSayyad and Mejgan Massoumi Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
Disciplina: 201/.630776091724
Soggetto topico: Religion and geography
Cities and towns - Religious aspects
City planning - Religious aspects
Religion and sociology
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: MassoumiMejgan  
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
Titolo autorizzato: The fundamentalist city  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-136-92120-6
1-136-92121-4
1-282-78103-0
9786612781032
0-203-84459-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910459214403321
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