Handbook of religion and the Asian city : aspiration and urbanization in the twenty-first century / / edited by Peter van der Veer ; contributors, Kamran Asdar Ali [and twenty-four others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (485 p.) |
Disciplina | 200.95/091732 |
Soggetto topico |
Cities and towns - Religious aspects
Cities and towns - Asia City planning - Religious aspects City planning - Asia Religion and politics - Asia City dwellers - Religious life - Asia |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. In Place of Ritual: Global City, Sacred Space, and the Guanyin Temple in Singapore -- 2. The City and the Pagoda: Buddhist Spatial Tactics in Shanghai -- 3. Territorial Cults and the Urbanization of the Chinese World: A Case Study of Suzhou -- 4. Global and Religious: Urban Aspirations and the Governance of Religions in Metro Manila -- 5. The Muharram Procession of Mumbai: From Seafront to Cemetery -- 6. Urban Processions: Colonial Decline and Revival as Heritage in Postcolonial Hong Kong -- 7. Urban Megachurches and Contentious Religious Politics in Seoul -- 8. Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good (Trust) Deeds: Parsis, Risk, and Real Estate in Mumbai -- 9. The Urban Development and Heritage Contestation of Bangkok's Chinatown -- 10. Dealing with the Dragon: Urban Planning in Hanoi -- 11. Contested Religious Space in Jakarta: Negotiating Politics, Capital, and Ethnicity -- 12. Urban Buddhism in the Thai Postmetropolis -- 13. From Village to City: Hinduism and the "Hindu Caste System" -- 14. The Politics of Desecularization: Christian Churches and North Korean Migrants in Seoul -- 15. Parallel Universes: Chinese Temple Networks in Singapore, or What Is Missing in the Singapore Model? -- 16. The Flexibility of Religion: Buddhist Temples as Multiaspirational Sites in Contemporary Beijing -- 17. Cultivating Happiness: Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Well-Being in a Transforming Urban China -- 18. Other Christians as Christian Others: Signs of New Christian Populations and the Urban Expansion of Seoul -- 19. Aspiring in Karachi: Breathing Life into the City of Death -- 20. Can Commodities Be Sacred? Material Religion in Seoul and Hanoi -- 21. Cinema and Karachi in the 1960's: Cultural Wounds and National Cohesion -- 22. The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood -- 23. Media, Urban Aspirations, and Religious Mobilization among Twelver Shiʻites in Mumbai -- 24. Internet Hindus: Right-Wingers as New India's Ideological Warriors -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464007303321 |
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Handbook of religion and the Asian city : aspiration and urbanization in the twenty-first century / / edited by Peter van der Veer ; contributors, Kamran Asdar Ali [and twenty-four others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (485 p.) |
Disciplina | 200.95/091732 |
Soggetto topico |
Cities and towns - Religious aspects
Cities and towns - Asia City planning - Religious aspects City planning - Asia Religion and politics - Asia City dwellers - Religious life - Asia |
Soggetto non controllato |
asian cities
asian megachurches asian politics asian religions asian religious customs asian secularism asias urban aspirations buddhism buddhist temples contested space asia guanyin temple modern religion in asia mumbai philippines politics of space asia politics of space politics public religion asia public religion religion and secularism asia religion religions of asia religious spaces in asia sacred space singapore suzhou twelver shiites urban planning asia urban spaces in asia urban theory |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. In Place of Ritual: Global City, Sacred Space, and the Guanyin Temple in Singapore -- 2. The City and the Pagoda: Buddhist Spatial Tactics in Shanghai -- 3. Territorial Cults and the Urbanization of the Chinese World: A Case Study of Suzhou -- 4. Global and Religious: Urban Aspirations and the Governance of Religions in Metro Manila -- 5. The Muharram Procession of Mumbai: From Seafront to Cemetery -- 6. Urban Processions: Colonial Decline and Revival as Heritage in Postcolonial Hong Kong -- 7. Urban Megachurches and Contentious Religious Politics in Seoul -- 8. Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good (Trust) Deeds: Parsis, Risk, and Real Estate in Mumbai -- 9. The Urban Development and Heritage Contestation of Bangkok's Chinatown -- 10. Dealing with the Dragon: Urban Planning in Hanoi -- 11. Contested Religious Space in Jakarta: Negotiating Politics, Capital, and Ethnicity -- 12. Urban Buddhism in the Thai Postmetropolis -- 13. From Village to City: Hinduism and the "Hindu Caste System" -- 14. The Politics of Desecularization: Christian Churches and North Korean Migrants in Seoul -- 15. Parallel Universes: Chinese Temple Networks in Singapore, or What Is Missing in the Singapore Model? -- 16. The Flexibility of Religion: Buddhist Temples as Multiaspirational Sites in Contemporary Beijing -- 17. Cultivating Happiness: Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Well-Being in a Transforming Urban China -- 18. Other Christians as Christian Others: Signs of New Christian Populations and the Urban Expansion of Seoul -- 19. Aspiring in Karachi: Breathing Life into the City of Death -- 20. Can Commodities Be Sacred? Material Religion in Seoul and Hanoi -- 21. Cinema and Karachi in the 1960's: Cultural Wounds and National Cohesion -- 22. The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood -- 23. Media, Urban Aspirations, and Religious Mobilization among Twelver Shiʻites in Mumbai -- 24. Internet Hindus: Right-Wingers as New India's Ideological Warriors -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788139403321 |
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Handbook of religion and the Asian city : aspiration and urbanization in the twenty-first century / / edited by Peter van der Veer ; contributors, Kamran Asdar Ali [and twenty-four others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (485 p.) |
Disciplina | 200.95/091732 |
Soggetto topico |
Cities and towns - Religious aspects
Cities and towns - Asia City planning - Religious aspects City planning - Asia Religion and politics - Asia City dwellers - Religious life - Asia |
Soggetto non controllato |
asian cities
asian megachurches asian politics asian religions asian religious customs asian secularism asias urban aspirations buddhism buddhist temples contested space asia guanyin temple modern religion in asia mumbai philippines politics of space asia politics of space politics public religion asia public religion religion and secularism asia religion religions of asia religious spaces in asia sacred space singapore suzhou twelver shiites urban planning asia urban spaces in asia urban theory |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. In Place of Ritual: Global City, Sacred Space, and the Guanyin Temple in Singapore -- 2. The City and the Pagoda: Buddhist Spatial Tactics in Shanghai -- 3. Territorial Cults and the Urbanization of the Chinese World: A Case Study of Suzhou -- 4. Global and Religious: Urban Aspirations and the Governance of Religions in Metro Manila -- 5. The Muharram Procession of Mumbai: From Seafront to Cemetery -- 6. Urban Processions: Colonial Decline and Revival as Heritage in Postcolonial Hong Kong -- 7. Urban Megachurches and Contentious Religious Politics in Seoul -- 8. Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good (Trust) Deeds: Parsis, Risk, and Real Estate in Mumbai -- 9. The Urban Development and Heritage Contestation of Bangkok's Chinatown -- 10. Dealing with the Dragon: Urban Planning in Hanoi -- 11. Contested Religious Space in Jakarta: Negotiating Politics, Capital, and Ethnicity -- 12. Urban Buddhism in the Thai Postmetropolis -- 13. From Village to City: Hinduism and the "Hindu Caste System" -- 14. The Politics of Desecularization: Christian Churches and North Korean Migrants in Seoul -- 15. Parallel Universes: Chinese Temple Networks in Singapore, or What Is Missing in the Singapore Model? -- 16. The Flexibility of Religion: Buddhist Temples as Multiaspirational Sites in Contemporary Beijing -- 17. Cultivating Happiness: Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Well-Being in a Transforming Urban China -- 18. Other Christians as Christian Others: Signs of New Christian Populations and the Urban Expansion of Seoul -- 19. Aspiring in Karachi: Breathing Life into the City of Death -- 20. Can Commodities Be Sacred? Material Religion in Seoul and Hanoi -- 21. Cinema and Karachi in the 1960's: Cultural Wounds and National Cohesion -- 22. The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood -- 23. Media, Urban Aspirations, and Religious Mobilization among Twelver Shiʻites in Mumbai -- 24. Internet Hindus: Right-Wingers as New India's Ideological Warriors -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817602303321 |
Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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