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Religion and the Global City, Paperback / softback Book

Religion and the Global City Paperback / softback

Edited by Dr David (University of Kent, UK) Garbin, Anna (University of Kent, UK) Strhan

Part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place series

Paperback / softback

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This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by aspects of global city dynamics.

Theoretically grounded and empirically informed, Religion and the Global City advances discussions in the field of urban religion, and establishes future research directions. David Garbin and Anna Strhan bring together a wealth of ethnographically rich and vivid case studies in a diversity of urban settings, in both Global North and Global South contexts.

These case studies are drawn from both ‘classical’ global cities such as London and Paris, and also from large cosmopolitan metropolises - such as Bangalore, Rio de Janeiro, Lagos, Singapore and Hong Kong – which all constitute, in their own terms, powerful sites within the informational, cultural and moral networked economies of contemporary globalization. The chapters explore some of the most pressing issues of our times: globalization and the role of global neo-liberal regimes; urban change and in particular the dramatic urbanization of Global South countries; and religious politics and religious revivalism associated, for instance, with transnational Islam or global Pentecostal/Charismatic Christianity.

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