{"product_id":"urban-religious-events-9781350238466","title":"Urban Religious Events","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow might we best understand the relationship between the vibrant religious landscapes we see in many cities and contemporary urban social processes? Through case studies drawn from around the world, contributors explore the ways in which these processes interact in cities.   This book argues that religious events  including rituals, processions, and festivals  are not only choreographies of sacred traditions, but they are also creative disruptions that reveal how urban cultural hierarchies are experienced and contested. Exposing the power dynamics behind these events, this book shows how performative uses of urban space serve to destabilize dominant genealogies and lineages around urban identities just as they lay claims to cultural supremacy or heritage.   Through exploring the affective disruptions and political controversies caused by religious events, the contributors engage theoretical discussions in urban studies, the sociology of religion and the ethnography of ritual. This boo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eUrban Religious Events: Public Spirituality in Contested Spaces \u003c\/i\u003eis a truly enjoyable read. The lively writing creates a vivid picture of processions, festivals and spectacles from Moscow to Rio de Janeiro and Madrid. The innovative concept of ‘urban religious events’ provides a convincing overall prism for analysis of events from lighting the hanukkiah in Barcelona, to jiu-jitsu parades in Brazil and practicing yoga on a bridge in Vancouver. * Lene Kühle, Professor of Sociology and Religion, Aarhus University, Denmark *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction \u003cb\u003ePart 1: After the Secular City: Religion and Urban Effervescence\u003c\/b\u003e 2. Religion in the Street: A popular neighborhood in Mexico City, \u003ci\u003eHugo José Suárez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Staging Green Spirituality in the Parks of Lausanne and Geneva: A Spatial Approach to Urban Ecological Festivals, \u003ci\u003eIrene Becci (Université de \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLausanne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, Switzerland) \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSalomé Okoekpen\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Constructing a Religioscape: The Case of Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow,\u003ci\u003e Nadezda Rychkova (Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Festivals of Religions and Religious Festivals: Heritigized Heterotopias,\u003ci\u003e Alberta Giorgi (University of Bergamo, Italy) and Mariachiara Giorda (Roma Tre University, Italy)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 2: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Politics of Religion in Urban Spaces: Power and Symbolism in the City\u003c\/b\u003e 6. A Bridge Too Far: Yoga, Spirituality, and Contested Space in the Pacific Northwest, \u003ci\u003ePaul Bramadat (University of Victoria, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. “It’s the first Sukkah since the Inquisition!”: Jewish Celebrations in Public Spaces in Barcelona,\u003ci\u003e Julia Martínez-Ariño (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Spatial Discourses of Sanctity as Means of Struggle and Empowerment in a Contested City, \u003ci\u003eNimrod Luz (Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e9. \u003c\/i\u003eDecoding Strategic Secularism in Madrid: Religion as Ambience in Three Scenarios, \u003ci\u003eMonica Cornejo-Valle (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain)\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart 3: Public Religious Rituals, Urban Transcendence and Embodied Spirituality\u003c\/b\u003e 10. Urbi et Orbi: Pope Benedict’s Visit to Berlin and the Emplacement of Communicative Events, \u003ci\u003eHubert Knoblauch (TU Berlin, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. Turning Spirituality into a Public Event: the Popularization of Collective Meditations and Mindfulness Marches in the Urban Space, \u003ci\u003eMar Griera (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Anna Clot-Garrell (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)\u003c\/i\u003e 12. God’s Warriors: Embodying Evangelical Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Rio de Janeiro, \u003ci\u003eRaphael Schapira \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland)\u003c\/i\u003e 13. Feeling Sufis: An essay on Intimate Religion in Berlin\u003ci\u003e, Omar Kasmani (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e 14. Epilogue, \u003ci\u003eSophie Watson (The Open University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019643584855,"sku":"9781350238466","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350238466.jpg?v=1750780885","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/urban-religious-events-9781350238466","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}