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Public Religion and Urban Transformation: Faith in the City

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Description for Public Religion and Urban Transformation: Faith in the City Paperback. This text offers a sweeping view of urban religion in response to the transformations of de-industrialized large cities. Focusing on Chicago, it explores the ways in which religious organizations both reflect and contribute to changes in American pluralism. Editor(s): Livezey, Lowell W. Series: Religion, Race, & Ethnicity. Num Pages: 364 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HRA; JFC; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.

American cities are in the midst of fundamental changes. De-industrialization of large, aging cities has been enormously disruptive for urban communities, which are being increasingly fragmented. Though often overlooked, religious organizations are important actors, both culturally and politically in the restructuring metropolis.
Public Religion and Urban Transformation provides a sweeping view of urban religion in response to these transformations. Drawing on a massive study of over seventy-five congregations in urban neighborhoods, this volume provides the most comprehensive picture available of urban places of worship-from mosques and gurdwaras to churches and synagogues-within one city.
Revisiting the primary ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
Series
Religion, Race, & Ethnicity
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814751589
SKU
V9780814751589
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Ref
99-50

About Livezey
Lowell W. Livezey has been the Director and Principal Investigator of the Religion and Urban America Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago from its inception.

Reviews for Public Religion and Urban Transformation: Faith in the City
This book presents the initial results of a team-based ethnographic study aimed at understanding better the richness of religious life in the multiplicity of communities that make up modern Chicago.
Journal of Contemporary Religion
It will alter - or perhaps confirm - your thinking about 'public religion' and how traditional and immigrant congregations address (or don't) member and ... Read more

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