Rescripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis

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Rescripting Religion in the City explores the role of faith and religious practices as strategies for understanding and negotiating the migratory experience. Leading international scholars draw on case studies of urban settings in the global north and south. Presenting a nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis' this book makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history, the sociology of religion and migration studies, as well as historical and urban geography and practical theology. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Acknowledgements Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction Part I Conversations and Translations: ‘Language’ across Boundaries 1 Theologies and Ethics of Migration: Muslim and Christian Perspectives 2 Scholarly Languages I 3 Scholarly Languages II 4 Performative Languages I 5 Performative Languages II 6 Performative Languages III Part II Place and Space 7 The Contagion of the Sacred and the Right to the City 8 Marking a Good Death 9 Church without Walls 10 Refugee Camps and Cities in Conversation Part III Gender and Generation 11 Religious Routes and Routines 12 Inter-Generational Negotiations of Religious Identity, Belief and Practice 13 Transnational Faith, Families and Belonging 14 From Bodies to Souls Part IV Public Policy 15 The Church of England, Race and Multi‑Culturalism, 1962–2012 16 Discovering Faith? 17 Does Warsaw Need a Mosque? 18 Hospitality as Resistance 19 Rescripting Religion at UNESCO and in Australia Conclusion Bibliography Index