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Lexington Books Christianity and Culture in the City A Postcolonial Approach 2015 Edition by Samuel Cruz, Peter Savastano, Edgar Rivera, Nicolas Dumit Estevez
Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach offers an introduction to the broad diversity of contemporary Christianities in a rich, complex, changing, and challenging city context. Cruz focuses upon a variety of changing communities with dynamic and striking cultural experiences, and the volume provides both scholarly and practical insights as to how Christianities in the city relate to and transform city institutions and communities that are undergoing dramatic shifts and invite opportunities for intentional study.This book offers a provocative interdisciplinary examination to shed light upon the ways in which diverse city communities appropriate Christianity to better engage their economic, cultural, political, and religious environment. A post-colonial theoretical framework will help inform how Christianity serves to empower and reinvent fragmented, oppressed, and struggling city populations. The reader is offered various conceptual, theoretical, and pragmatic insights and knowledge for better interpreting, affirming, and engaging diverse Christianities in the city in a postcolonial era. Table of contents :- IntroductionSamuel CruzChapter 1: The Use of Roman Catholic Material Culture, Ritual, and Devotional Practices in Haitian Vodou in the Greater Newark, New Jersey Area: The Urban Context.Peter SavastanoChapter 2: Between the Runway and Empty Tomb: Bodily Transformations and Christian Praxis in New York City's House Ball Community.Edgar RiveraChapter 3: Praying Aloud, in Spanish, in the South BronxNicolas Dumit EstevezChapter 4: Troubling the Waters: Intimate Violence and the Church-Breaking the Hold of Shame and Secrecy Michelle L. NickensChapter 5: Revelation 12-13: A Guerilla Reading Charlene SinclairChapter 6: The Church, the City, and Its Mission in the 21st Century: A View from the MarginsElieser ValentinChapter 7: Conclusion: A Praxis of Integral Liberation in a (Post) Colonial World A Critical and Compelling ConversationDavid Traverzo