Religion in Los Angeles

Richard Flory is Senior Director of Research and Evaluation at the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. Diane Winston is the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

• Section One: Then 1. Rivers of Living Water: Radical Social Behaviors and Religious Innovations on Azusa Street, 1906-1909. 2. Funding Fundamentalism: Lyman Stewart, Hard Financing and the Creation of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles 3. International Guru as Local Swami: Yogananda and the Religious Culture of Southern California 4. Borderlands Believers: Migrant Laborers and the Growth of Pentecostalism from Los Angeles 5. Religion and the Urban Civic Landscape: The Case of the Los Angeles County Committee for Church and Community 6. A Respectable Militancy: Rev. J. Raymond Henderson & the Civil Rights Struggle in Los Angeles, 1941-1963 7. The Pentecost Moment: Los Angeles as Global Christian Space in the Late-20th Century 8. The "Flying Nun" and the "Painting Nun": Gender, Conflict, and Representation in 1960s Los Angeles. 9. Theosophy and the Realization of Southern California’s Divine Destiny Section Two: Now 10. Redeeming the City: Los Angeles in the Social Imagination of an Urban Social Ministry 11. Expanding Never Again: The Cosmopolitan Parochialism of Los Angeles Jewish Mobilization on the Genocide in Darfur 12. Justice Activism and Latino Spiritualities: Los Angeles as a Post-Colonial Border Space 13. Sustaining Borderlands Traditions in a Latinx Pentecostal Church 14. Aum Shalom: Jews, Gurus and Religious Hybridity in the City of Angels 15. Korean Diaspora Churches in Los Angeles: Place Matters 16. Japanese Americans and the Birth (and Rebirth) of Buddhism in the City of Angels 17. The Legacy of Religious Diversity in Southern California.

"The twenty-seven scholarly pieces that make-up Religion in Los Angeles: Religious Activism, Innovation, and Diversity in the Global City are a valuable contribution to what appears to be a growing body of literature examining the relationship between cities and their religious components." - Stephanie L. Derrick, independent scholar