Place/no-place in urban Asian religiosity. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joanne Punzo Waghorne, editor.
• Editors: Waghorne, Joanne Punzo
• Contents: Preface; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction: Negotiating Place, Non-place, and No-Place; 1.1 Space Beyond Modern and Postmodern; 1.2 Rich Nations and Poor Nations: Changing Role of Religion; 1.3 Non-places and No-Place: Globalization in Another Key; 1.4 Changing Religio-spatial Landscapes in Asia: A Summary; 1.5 Tracing No-Place in Material Space and Cyberspace; 1.6 Asia and Asian-ness in New Configurations; 1.7 From Village to Town to City in India: A Comparative Cluster; 1.8 Entré; References. Chapter 2: From Megachurches to the Invisible Temple: Placing the Protestant "Church" in the Seoul Metropolitan Area2.1 Editor's Preface; 2.2 Introduction; 2.3 Megachurches Founding Branch Churches in Newly Developed Area; 2.3.1 Case 1: Yoido Full Gospel Second Temple (Second Church) ; 2.3.2 Case 2: Onnuri Church Yangjae Temple ; 2.4 Small and Poor Churches Without Their Own Places; 2.4.1 Case 1: "Church for Suffering Neighbors: Hope-seeker" Near Seoul Station ; 2.4.2 Case 2: Kwangya Church Around Yeongdeungpo Station ; 2.5 Churches Refusing to Build Places; 2.5.1 Case 1: Yesumaul Church. 2.5.2 Case 2: God's Will SoongEui Church 2.6 Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: No-Place, New Places: Death and Its Rituals in Urban Asia; 3.1 Editor's Preface; 3.2 Introduction; 3.3 Necrogeographies; 3.4 Sea Burials in Hong Kong; 3.4.1 Practical Constraints, Functional Planning; 3.4.2 Resistant Cultures and Culture of Resistance; 3.4.3 State Discursive and Material Strategies; 3.5 Woodland and Parkland Burials in Taiwan; 3.5.1 Grave Shortages, Columbaria Crowdedness; 3.5.2 Promoting Woodland and Parkland Burials: Discursive and Material Strategies; 3.5.3 Ritual Transformations. 3.6 Online Mourning and Memorialization in China3.6.1 Virtual Worlds; 3.6.2 State Initiatives, Pragmatic Motivations, and Overcoming the Tyranny of Place; 3.6.3 Resistances to Emergent Practice; 3.6.4 Conclusions; References; Chapter 4: Alone Together: Global Gurus, Cosmopolitan Space, and Community; 4.1 Editor's Preface; 4.2 Singapore, Developing an Inner Space?; 4.2.1 Global Gurus and the Changing Nature of Persons; 4.3 Kriya: Moving Beyond Place; 4.4 Shifts and Complications; References; Chapter 5: On Daoism and Religious Networks in a Digital Age; 5.1 Editor's Preface; 5.2 Introduction. 5.3 The Ghost Festival and Singapore's Mass Media5.4 Travel, Network Relationships, and Cultural Renewal; 5.5 Altars, Mediums, and the Internet; 5.6 The Internationalization of Modern Daoism in China and Singapore; 5.7 Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: Losing the Neighborhood Temple (Or Finding the Temple and Losing the Neighborhood): Transformations of Temple Space in Modern Beijing; 6.1 Editor's Preface; 6.2 Introduction; 6.3 Space, Place, and Religiosity in Late Imperial Beijing; 6.4 Modern Transitions; 6.5 The Temple of Universal Rescue: A History in Place.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.6091732; Cities and towns -- Asia -- Religious aspects; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Cities and towns -- Religious aspects; Asia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811003851; 9811003858; 9789811003844
• Related ISBNs: 981100384X; 9789811003844
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 25, 2016).
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