Spiritualizing the City

Victoria Hegner is Senior Researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at the Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany. Peter Jan Margry is Professor of European Ethnology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

• 1. Introduction: spiritualizing the urban and the urbanesque Victoria Hegner and Peter Jan MargryPart I: The politics of religious plurality and identity 2. Local interfaith networks in urban integration politics: religious communities between innovation and cooptationEva Dick and Alexander-Kenneth Nagel3. Preserving Catholic space and place in "The Rome of the West"Tricia C. BrucePart II: Producing and negotiating religious space 4. Praying in Berlin’s Asiatown: religious place-making in a multi-ethnic bazaarGertrud Hüwelmeier5. Framing the Pope within the urban space: John Paul II and the cityscape of KrakówAnna Niedźwiedź6. Religious mediations in a dense cityscape: experience of Catholic and Buddhist spaces in Hong KongMariske Westendorp7. Spiritualizing the suburbs: new religious architecture in suburban London and Vancouver Claire Dwyer8. Multiculturalism, veiling fashion and mosques: a religious topography of Islam in BerlinSynnøve BendixsenPart III: The agency of body and senses in spiritualized practices9. The dance floor as urban altar: how ecstatic dancers transform the lived experience of citiesSarah M. Pike10. A saxophone divine: experiencing the transformative power of Saint John Coltrane’s jazz music in San Francisco's Fillmore DistrictPeter Jan Margry and Daniel Wojcik11. "Singing is prayer two times": a transnational perspective on "religious music," musical performance and urban religiosity in Cameroon and SwitzerlandRaphaela von Weichs

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