This blog considers the mutual formation of urbanity and religion from antiquity to the present. It focuses on specific case studies, like Mediterranean cities of the ancient world, early modern political and religious centres or modern Indian towns, but it also introduces more wide-ranging, theoretical investigations. The blog is connected to the DFG- funded research group "Religion and Urbanity" (FOR 2779), based at the Max-Weber-Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the Univer..
From a historical perspective, cities have served as more than mere locations where religious practi...
The increasing phenomenon of pluralistic urban areas is not merely a manifestation of cultural and r...
Movie theaters being converted into prayer rooms in Rio de Janeiro as well as in Berlin, Christian g...
An article bringing together a range of scholars from a variety of disciplines – including history, ...
Religion has affected dramatic developments in the history of cities – from foundations to waves of ...
Contrary to assumptions in traditional urban theory that understand religion as external or peripher...
This chapter introduces “urbanism” and its key theoretical inflections and emphases. The chapter exp...
Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number...
The papers in this special issue of Culture and Religion were presented during the 2-day workshop ‘R...
The KFG "Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations" organized a lecture series at the university ...
The concept of urban religion demands us to start operationally with analyzing characteristics of ur...
The background to this article is the debate on cities as post-secular and superdiverse. The authors...
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.Religion within the urban environment has been debat...
This article starts from the remark that anthropology of religion and urban anthropology have been f...
This collection of articles is written in the face of far-reaching processes of urbanization, drawin...
From a historical perspective, cities have served as more than mere locations where religious practi...
The increasing phenomenon of pluralistic urban areas is not merely a manifestation of cultural and r...
Movie theaters being converted into prayer rooms in Rio de Janeiro as well as in Berlin, Christian g...
An article bringing together a range of scholars from a variety of disciplines – including history, ...
Religion has affected dramatic developments in the history of cities – from foundations to waves of ...
Contrary to assumptions in traditional urban theory that understand religion as external or peripher...
This chapter introduces “urbanism” and its key theoretical inflections and emphases. The chapter exp...
Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number...
The papers in this special issue of Culture and Religion were presented during the 2-day workshop ‘R...
The KFG "Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations" organized a lecture series at the university ...
The concept of urban religion demands us to start operationally with analyzing characteristics of ur...
The background to this article is the debate on cities as post-secular and superdiverse. The authors...
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.Religion within the urban environment has been debat...
This article starts from the remark that anthropology of religion and urban anthropology have been f...
This collection of articles is written in the face of far-reaching processes of urbanization, drawin...
From a historical perspective, cities have served as more than mere locations where religious practi...
The increasing phenomenon of pluralistic urban areas is not merely a manifestation of cultural and r...
Movie theaters being converted into prayer rooms in Rio de Janeiro as well as in Berlin, Christian g...