The New Religious Image Of Urban America Second Edition
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Author | : Paul D. Numrich |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2015-04-14 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 019026666X |
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Religion and Community in the New Urban America examines the interrelated transformations of cities and urban congregations. The authors ask how the new metropolis affects local religious communities and what role those communities play in creating the new metropolis. Through an in-depth study of fifteen Chicago congregations-Catholic parishes, Protestant churches, Jewish synagogues, Muslim mosques, and a Hindu temple, both city and suburban-this book describes congregational life and measures congregational influences on urban environments. Paul D. Numrich and Elfriede Wedam challenge the view held by many urban studies scholars that religion plays a small role-if any-in shaping postindustrial cities and that religious communities merely adapt to urban structures in a passive fashion. Taking into account the spatial distribution of constituents, internal traits, and external actions, each congregation's urban impact is plotted on a continuum of weak, to moderate, to strong, thus providing a nuanced understanding of the significance of religion in the contemporary urban context. Presenting a thoughtful analysis that includes maps of each congregation in its social-geographic setting, the authors offer an insightful look into urban community life today, from congregations to the places in which they are embedded.
Author | : Paul David Numrich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9780199386871 |
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This study examines the interrelated transformations of cities and urban congregations over the past several decades. How does the new metropolis affect local religious communities? What is the role of local religious communities in creating the new metropolis? Through an in-depth study of fifteen Chicago congregations - Catholic parishes, Protestant churches, Jewish synagogues, Muslim mosques, and a Hindu temple, city and suburban, neighbourhood-based and commuter - this book describes congregational life and measures congregational influences on urban environments.
Author | : Peter G. Stromberg |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2009-05-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0804771278 |
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Most of us have become so immersed in a book or game or movie that the activity temporarily assumed a profound significance and the outside world began to fade. Although we are likely to enjoy these experiences in the realm of entertainment, we rarely think about what effect they might be having on us. Precisely because it is so pervasive, entertainment is difficult to understand and even to talk about. To understand the social role of entertainment, Caught in Play looks closely at how we engage entertainment and at the ideas and practices it creates and sustains. Though entertainment is for fun, it does not follow that it is trivial in its effect on our lives. As this work reveals, entertainment generates commitments to values we are not always willing to acknowledge: values of pleasure, self-indulgence, and consumption. For more information, please visit www.caughtinplay.com.
Author | : Mark Howard Moss |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780739116814 |
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Shopping as an Entertainment Experience explores the ways in which shopping has become a significant entertainment feature in our daily lives. Dr. Mark H. Moss examines the department store, the mall, and the e-store to demonstrate how shopping is often the most common leisure experience that people indulge in to occupy themselves. This unique book focuses on the historical evolution of shopping environments into contemporary entertainment or cultural zones. Through a phenomenological framework, Moss analyzes the way stores, outlets, and restaurants in malls mingle and merge aspects of consumption and merchandising. Shopping as an Entertainment Experience appeals to sociologists, cultural theorists, and those interested in popular culture.
Author | : Richard Curtis |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2007-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0615152414 |
Download What Is Religion? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this book Richard Curtis argues that religion is a universal human phenomenon regardless of content. In popular culture religion is understood to be belief in supernatural things but specialists in the field usually use a generic definition. Dr. Curtis, here, offers his theory of the nature of religion, which is open as to content (that is compatible with theistic and atheistic positions), based on the latest insights from Philosophy of Mind, the Social Sciences and the Cognitive Sciences.
Author | : Terry D. Bilhartz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1986-08-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781611470758 |
Download Urban Religion and the Second Great Awakening Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book explores the varied terrain of religious activity in early national Baltimore. It examines the development and consequences of the voluntary church system in one urban center during the ferment and change of the formative age for American religion.
Author | : Virgilio Elizondo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2000-06-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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"Like the Chinese dicho, we are blessed to be living in interesting times, on the border of the new mestizaje. As one member of this exciting movimento nudging and being nudged into the future, I am delighted to have discovered this book. I have seen the new millennium and the future is us." -- Sandra Cisneros.
Author | : Robert W. Kweit |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2013-11-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135640505 |
Download People and Politics in Urban America, Second Edition Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
First Published in 1998. Approximately 75 percent of Americans live in cities and surrounding suburbs, and the characteristics of those cities inescapably affect the quality of their lives. This book examines the extent to which these Americans use the political process to control the characteristics of life in their metropolises. In addition, this second edition revision places great emphasis on the role of political leaders, while recognising the interdependence between those leaders and various interests in the city.
Author | : Kevin Lynch |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1964-06-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262620017 |
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The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
Author | : Paul William Davies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 2001 |
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