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Religious Pluralism and the City challenges the notion that the
city is a secular place, and calls for an analysis of how religion
and the city are intertwined. It is the first book to analyze the
explanatory value of a number of typologies already in use around
this topic - from "holy city" to "secular city", from
"fundamentalist" to "postsecular city". By intertwining the city
and religion, urban theory and theories of religion, this is the
first book to provide an international and interdisciplinary
analysis of post-secular urbanism. The book argues that, given the
rise of religiously inspired violence and the increasing
significance of charismatic Christianity, Islam and other spiritual
traditions, the master narrative that modern societies are secular
societies has lost its empirical plausibility. Instead, we are
seeing the pluralization of religion, the co-existence of different
religious worldviews, and the simultaneity of secular and religious
institutions that shape everyday life. These particular
constellations of "religious pluralism" are, above all, played out
in cities. Including contributions from Peter L. Berger and Nezar
Alsayyad, this book conceptually and empirically revokes the
dissolution between city and religion to unveil its intimate
relationship, and offers an alternative view on the quotidian state
of the global urban condition.
Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict. As
places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and
lifestyles, cities play the role of powerful integrators; yet on
the other hand urban contexts are the ideal setting for
marginalization and violence. The struggle over control of urban
spaces is an ambivalent mode of sociation: while producing
themselves, groups produce exclusive spaces and then, in turn, use
the boundaries they have created to define themselves. This volume
presents major urban conflicts and analyzes modes of negotiation
against the theoretical background of postcolonialism.
Religious Pluralism and the City challenges the notion that the
city is a secular place, and calls for an analysis of how religion
and the city are intertwined. It is the first book to analyze the
explanatory value of a number of typologies already in use around
this topic - from "holy city" to "secular city", from
"fundamentalist" to "postsecular city". By intertwining the city
and religion, urban theory and theories of religion, this is the
first book to provide an international and interdisciplinary
analysis of post-secular urbanism. The book argues that, given the
rise of religiously inspired violence and the increasing
significance of charismatic Christianity, Islam and other spiritual
traditions, the master narrative that modern societies are secular
societies has lost its empirical plausibility. Instead, we are
seeing the pluralization of religion, the co-existence of different
religious worldviews, and the simultaneity of secular and religious
institutions that shape everyday life. These particular
constellations of "religious pluralism" are, above all, played out
in cities. Including contributions from Peter L. Berger and Nezar
Alsayyad, this book conceptually and empirically revokes the
dissolution between city and religion to unveil its intimate
relationship, and offers an alternative view on the quotidian state
of the global urban condition.
This book decodes the ambivalence of gift-giving. It examines its
socio-ethical and integrative potential. Following a short
recollection of contemporary gift-giving, its motives, occasions
and its rules, the reader is invited to travel back in time and
space examining 'sacrifice', 'food-sharing', and 'gift giving' as
those basic institutions upon which symbolic orders of
'traditional' society rely. The historical invention of hospitality
is considered and paves the way to an analysis of the anthropology
of giving. Berking goes on to explore the transition from
traditional society to the market, self interest form. He questions
the view that our societies are dominated by individualism and
explores the contemporary interplay between self interest and the
common good.
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