Religious Pluralism and the City

Helmuth Berking is Professor of Sociology and Fellow at the Institute of Sociology at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.Silke Steets is a Heisenberg Fellow at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Leipzig University, Germany.Jochen Schwenk is Lecturer and Post-doctoral Researcher at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.

• List of Figures List of TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgments Introduction: Filling the Void? – Religious Pluralism and the City (Helmuth Berking, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany and Jochen Schwenk, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany and Silke Steets, Leipzig University, Germany) Part One: From Secularization to Pluralization1 Urbanity as a Vortex of Pluralism: A Personal Reflection about City and Religion (Peter L. Berger, was Professor emeritus at Boston University, USA)Part Two: Between Fundamentalism and Postsecularism: Conceptualizing the Relations between City and Religion2 The Death and Life of the Fundamentalist City: A Prelude to a Medieval Modernity (Nezar AlSayyad,University of Berkeley, USA)3 Postsecularity and a New Urban Politics – Spaces, Places and Imaginaries (Christopher Baker, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)4 Religion of the City: Urban-Religious Configurations on a Global Scale (Stephan Lanz, Europa-Universita¨t Viadrina, Germany) Part Three: Religious Pluralism: Conflicts and Negotiations in the City 5 Religious Super-Diversity and Urban Visibility in Barcelona and Turin (Marian Burchardt, Leipzig University, Germany and Irene Becci, University of Lausanne, Switzerland and Mariachiara Giorda, University of Turin, Italy)6 Capturing Carnival: Religious Diversity and Spatial Contestation in Rio de Janeiro (Martijn Oosterbaan, Utrecht University, Germany) 7 Migration and Morality: Secular and Religious Considerations among Romanian and Bulgarian Migrants in and around London (John Eade, University of Roehampton, UK)8 Marketplace, Fallow Ground, and Special Pastoral Care: What Christian Churches in Germany Know about the City – an Inter-denominational Comparison (Veronika Eufingerm,Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)Part Four: Changing Urban Imaginaries 9 Worlds within Worlds: Vernacular Pluralism, Publics of Belonging, and the Making of Modern Bangalore (Tulasi Srinivas, Emerson College, USA) 10 Jerusalem’s Imaginaries in the Neo-Liberal City: Re-Visiting Visual Representations in the “Holy City” (Tovi Fenster, Tel Aviv University, Israel) 11 “The Sumerian Tempelstadt”: The Modern Making of an Ancient Urban Concept (Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)Index

This book provides a wonderful addition to the grow­ing field of urban religion, religion(s) in cities, and surely religion in the postmodern era.