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Place/No-Place in Urban Asian Religiosity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Place/No-Place in Urban Asian Religiosity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: ARI - Springer Asia Series, 5
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This book discusses Asia's rapid pace of urbanization, with a
particular focus on new spaces created by and for everyday
religiosity. The essays in this volume - covering topics from the
global metropolises of Singapore, Bangalore, Seoul, Beijing, and
Hong Kong to the regional centers of Gwalior, Pune, Jahazpur, and
sites like Wudang Mountain - examine in detail the spaces created
by new or changing religious organizations that range in scope from
neighborhood-based to consciously global. The definition of
"spatial aspects" includes direct place-making projects such as the
construction of new religious buildings - temples, halls and other
meeting sites, as well as less tangible religious endeavors such as
the production of new "mental spaces" urged by spiritual leaders,
or the shift from terra firma to the strangely concrete effervesce
of cyberspace. With this in mind, it explores how distinct and
blurred, and open and bounded communities generate and participate
in diverse practices as they deliberately engage or disengage with
physical landscapes/cityscapes. It highlights how through these
religious organizations, changing class and gender configurations,
ongoing political and economic transformations, continue as
significant factors shaping and affecting Asian urban lives. In
addition, the books goes further by exploring new and often
bittersweet "improvements" like metro rail lines, new national
highways, widespread internet access, that bulldoze - both
literally and figuratively - religious places and force relocations
and adjustments that are often innovative and unexpected.
Furthermore, this volume explores personal experiences within the
particularities of selected religious organizations and the ways
that subjects interpret or actively construct urban spaces. The
essays show, through ethnographically and historically grounded
case studies, the variety of ways newly emerging religious
communities or religious institutions understand, value, interact
with, or strive to ignore extreme urbanization and rapidly changing
built environments.
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