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From a South African Passion Play to Turkish Sufi tourism, from
contemporary street preaching in America to public Hindu rites in
India, from cloistered prayer in 17th century France to the queer
politics of 'the closet' today, Performing Religion in Public
brings together an international array of voices that grapple with
the important role of religious performance in our secular public
lives. Because traditional notions of the public sphere have
emphasized rational discourse in a secular setting, religion has
often been excluded. But religious life is not impersonal argument;
rather, it is passionately performed, crossing boundaries between
public and private, the personal and the political, and claiming a
significant role in modern democracies, from everyday cultural
interactions to political advocacy. By focusing on the performative
nature of both religion and publics, this timely volume offers a
fresh and fruitful re-conception of the relationship between
religion and the public sphere.
Religious life and public life are both passionately performed, but
often understood to exclude one another. This book's array of
voices investigates the publics hailed by religious performances
and the challenges they offer to theories of the democratic public
sphere.
This book focuses on the practice of Urban Environmental Management
(UEM) in developing countries, which both face more immediate
problems than the developed world and have fewer resources to deal
with them. It is the report of a graduate level workshop that took
place at the School of Planning, College of Design, Architecture,
Art and Planning, University of Cincinnati, USA from August through
December 2013. The objective of the workshop was to prepare
students to work overseas in data-poor environments as professional
consulting planners. Several lectures were given to set the
framework for the class of 18 students to operate in sector-level
working groups or teams preparing a 5-year plan to help solve the
urban environmental problems of Mysore, India, utilizing a
real-world data base and a limited budget. This project formed the
majority of class work culminating in the completion of this
professional quality document.
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