The sacred in the city. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Liliana Gḿez and Walter van Herck ; contributors Sigurd Bergmann [and thirteen others].
• Editors: Gḿez, Liliana; Herck, Walter van, 1962-
• Other Names: Bergmann, Sigurd contributor.
• Contents: Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors ; Framing the Sacred in the City: An Introduction; The City ; Untitled; The Sacred ; Mapping the Sacred in the City: An Overview ; Bibliography ; Part One The Sacred and the City: -Theoretical Approaches; Chapter 1 Sacred Horror Vacui. A Philosophical Reflection; Two Exemplary Places ; Place and Non-place in Supermodernity ; Losing the Sacred ; Consensual Unity versus Ritual Unity ; Retrieving the Sacred ; Non-place and the Urban Jungle. Craving for Recognition in the City. Towards a Deepened Understanding of the Complexities of PluralPrecious Public Space ; Notes; Bibliography ; Chapter 2 The Urbanization of Society: Towards a Cultural Analysis of the Sacred in the Mo; On the Conceptual History of the Sacred ; The Sacred and the Modern Metropolis ; The Sacred and the Modern Metropolis ; Sacred Sociology as a Cultural Analysis of Modern Society ; The Everyday Life and the Urbanization of Society ; Towards a Cultural Analysis of the Sacred in the Modern Metropolis ; Notes ; Bibliography. Chapter 3 The Lingering Smell of Incense: Exploring Post-secular Public SpaceUrban Public Space ; The Post-secular City ; Atheist Buses in the Streets of London ; Republican and Communitarian Conceptions of the Public ; Liberal Approaches ; Post-secular Public Space ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Part Two Religion, Built Environments and Urban Societies; Chapter 4 Religion in the Built Environment: Aesth/Ethics, Ritual and Memory in Lived Urban Space; The Sacred in the Non-sacred ; Lived Religion in Lived Space ; Aesth/ethics ; Ritualization; Remembrance versus Urban Amnesia. 'In a land that I will show you' Notes ; Bibliography ; Chapter 5 Kinhin in a Megacity -- Implicit Meanings of the 'Walking-in-the-Park'-Mov; Preliminary Remarks ; The 'Walking-in-the-Park'-Movement -- A Short Introduction ; The 'Walking-in-the-Park'-Movement and its Buddhist Spirit ; The 'Walking-in-the-Park'-Movement and Its Implicit References to Monja Coen's Biography ; The 'Walking-in-the-Park'-Movement against the Hostile Conditions of a Megacity ; The 'Walking-in-the-Park'-Movement as a Symbolic Expression of Contemporary Brazilian Buddhism; Concluding Remarks ; Notes ; Bibliography. Chapter 6 Life Stance and Religious Identity in an Urbanized World: The Meaning of Life asMaking Sense in the City1 ; Augustine on the Human Predicament ; The Old and the New Worlds ; New Themes and Engagements ; Note; Bibliography ; Part Three Sacred Symbols, Sacred Spaces; Chapter 7 Sacred Symbols of the City: Babel, Barbara and their Towers; Introduction; The Tower of Babel as an Icon of Cultural Criticism and Political Resistance ; The Ambivalent Biblical Text of the Tower of Babel Story.
• Publisher Details: London, England New York : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (289 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 201/.7; Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies; RELIGION -- Christianity -- General; Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441188106
• Related ISBNs: 144118810X; 9781472526052
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Print version record.
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