Urban Religion A Historical Approach to Urban Growth and Religious Change 1st Edition by Jörg Rüpke ISBN 3110628686‎ 978-3110628685

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ISBN 10: 3110628686
ISBN 13:‎ 978-3110628685
Author: Jörg Rüpke

So far religion has been seen as cause for dramatic developments in the history of cities, it has contributed to the monumentalisation of centres and or has given importance to ex-centric places. Very recently, anthropologists have been discovering religion in the contemporary global city. But still awaiting historical investigation is the specific urban character of religious ideas, practices and institutions and the role of urban space shaping this very ‘religion’ in the course of history. The time-span from the Hellenistic age to Late Antiquity was crucial in the establishment of concepts and institutions of ‘religion’ and witnessed extended waves of urbanisation, Rome being central to this. In addressing this problem, this book fills a significant gap in the scholarship on urban religion across time. Taking seriously the proposition that space is condition, medium and outcome of social relations, the development of ‘urban religion’ in lived urban space and urban culture or urbanity offers a lens onto processes of religious change that have been neglected for the history of religion and for the study of urbanism. The key thesis is that city-space engineered the major changes that revolutionised religions.

»This stimulating book makes use of archaeology and history to address religion as an essential component of urban life in both the past and the present. -With a strong basis in the ancient Mediterranean as well as an insightful view of modern urban life, Rüpke emphasizes that the practice and performance of religion at the everyday level is as essential in the creation of an urban ethos as the grand temples and institutions promulgated by the elite.«

Monica L. Smith, author of Cities: The First 6,000 Years

»Jörg Rüpke offers a characteristically original and learned series of reflections on some of the many ways in which the history of religions and the history of cities might be entangled. Urban Religion offers no single overarching thesis, but it is consistently thought-provoking and suggests many intriguing lines of investigation for the future.«

Greg Woolf, Institute of Classical Studies, London

Urban Religion A Historical Approach to Urban Growth and Religious Change 1st Table of contents:

1 Looking at religion in the city

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Religious agency and sacralisation

1.3 Selectivity and canonicity as intensification of sacralisation

1.4 Reflecting on the urban

1.5 Urbanism and the formation of religious groups

2 Before urban religion: Fustel de Coulanges and narratives of civic religion

2.1 The problem

2.2 Polis religion

2.3 Critique

2.4 Comparative perspectives on cities in other regions and periods

2.5 Urbanised religion

3 Urbanising and urbanised religion

3.0 Introduction

3.1 Religion as spatial practice

3.2 Religion and urbanisation

3.3 Religions as urbanising factors

3.4 Urbanised religion

3.5 Conclusion

4 Presupposing the city: Philosophical piety as urbanised religion

4.1 Urban literature

4.2 The city as the ideal place for a good life

4.3 Religious phenomena as phenomena in a city

4.4 Philosophical debate as an indicator of urbanity

4.5 Conclusion: Urbanised religion

5 Crafting complex place: Religion and urban development

5.1 Introduction

5.2 ‘On places’

5.3 Time and place

5.4 The idea of a city?

5.5 Multiple appropriations

5.6 Trajectories

6 Materiality of religion in urban space: Neighbourhoods of a metropolis

6.1 Visible and material religion

6.2 Religion and material objects

6.3 Urban space

6.4 Religious practices and the city

6.5 Religion at the crossroads

6.6 Conclusion: Religion and public space

7 Urban resilience and religion: Attaching time to place

7.1 Resilience and religion

7.2 A wealth of practices

7.3 Historical background: The first written Roman calendar

7.4 Adding urban history

7.5 Negative history

7.6 Urban practices in the face of empire building

7.7 Attachment to urban places

7.8 Spatial interest and attachment to place in contemporary literary texts

7.9 Conclusion

8 Urban Selves: Individualisation in urban space

8.1 The problem

8.2 The concept of the self

8.3 An urban market for the shaping of the self

8.4 Urban identities

8.5 Citizenship and imagined cities

8.6 Conclusion

9 Urbanity and multiple religious identities

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Religious identities as seen by urban observers

9.3 Semantics

9.4 Construing identity boundaries in hindsight

9.5 Mapping differences

9.6 Prescribing differences in the Mishnah

9.7 Urbanity in the Mishnah

9.8 A particular and a general conclusion

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