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Autore: |
AlSayyad Nezar
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Titolo: |
The fundamentalist city? : religiosity and the remaking of urban space / / edited by Nezar AlSayyad and Mejgan Massoumi
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Pubblicazione: | London : , : 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 | |
Altri autori: |
MassoumiMejgan
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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 ![]() |
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.: | 9910814820703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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