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Taylor & Francis Rescripting Religion in the City Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis 2013 Edition by Alana Harris, Jane Garnett
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. Table of contents :- Introduction, Jane Garnett and Alana Harris; Part I Conversations and Translations: 'Language' across Boundaries: Theologies and ethics of migration: Muslim and Christian perspectives, Susanna Snyder, Zayn Kassam, Anna Rowlands and Narzanin Massoumi; Scholarly languages I: migration, faith, ethnicity and political subjectivity, Michael Keith; Scholarly languages II: anthropology, religion and migration, Simon Coleman; Performative languages I: sound, music and migration in Jerusalem's Old City, Abigail Wood; Performative languages II: 'Do what the Qur'an says and stay away from crack': Mirpuri Muslims, rap music and the city, Thomas Hodgson; Performative languages III: Belleville bazaar, Liz Hingley and Alice Hertzog. Part II Place and Space: The contagion of the sacred and the right to the city: modalities of belonging, becoming and participating amongst diasporic religious communities and the growth of the post-secular city, Chris Baker; Making a good death: Muslim burial sites and practices in Britain from 1800 to the present, Nazneen Ahmed; Church without walls: mapping the sacred in east London, Jane Garnett and Alana Harris; Refugee camps and cities in conversation, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh. Part III Gender and Generation: Religious routes and routines: African migrants moving in and out of Paris, Catrien Notermans, Maya Turolla and Willy Jansen; Inter-generational negotiations of religious identity, belief and practice; child, youth and adult perspectives from three cities, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh; Transnational faith, families and belonging: Brazilians in London and 'back home', Olivia Sheringham; From bodies to souls: Jewish youth clubs in the East End of London and the transmission of tradition, Gil Toffell. Part IV Public Policy: The Church of England, race and multiculturalism 1962-2012, Matthew Grimley; Discovering faith? The hidden contours of political participation and devotional practice in contemporary ea