Sacred Circles, Public Squares - The Multicentering of American Religion (Hardcover)

This study of the religious landscape of Indianapolis -- the summativevolume of the Lilly Endowment's Project on Religion and Urban Culture conducted bythe Polis Center at IUPUI -- aims to understand religion's changing role in publiclife. The book examines the shaping of religious traditions by the changing city. Itsheds light on issues such as social capital and faith-based welfare reform andexplores the countervailing pressures of "decentering" -- the creation ofmultiple (sub)urban centers -- and civil religion's role in binding these centersinto one metropolis.

Polis Center Series on Religion and UrbanCulture -- David J. Bodenhamer and Arthur E. Farnsley II, editors

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