Religion and the Global City

David Garbin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the University of Kent, UK. His research focuses on the interplay of migration, ethnicity, diaspora, space and religion, in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, North America, South Asia and Central Africa.Anna Strhan is Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Kent, UK. Her research explores the interrelations between space, religion, ethics, and values. She is the author of Aliens and Strangers? The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals (2015).

This volume opens up the world of urban religions, showing how they connect globalization and urbanization through everyday acts of place-making, co-operation and conviviality. Impressive in its geographical purview and inter-disciplinary ambition, this is an important collection and one that deserves to be read by all those interested in the state of our cities.

• Introduction, David Garbin (Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Kent, UK) and Anna Strhan (Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of Kent, UK)Part One: Power, visibility and the politics of space1. On the Road: Pentecostal Pathways through the Mega-City, Simon Coleman (Chancellor Jackman Professor, University of Toronto, Canada) and Manuel A. Vásquez (Professor of Religion, University of Florida, USA)2. Urban Planning and Secular Atheism in Shanghai, Beijing, and Singapore, Peter van der Veer (Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, and University Professor at Large, Utrecht University, Netherlands)3. Occupying the Global City: spatial politics and spiritual warfare among African Pentecostals in Hong Kong, Benjamin Kirby (University of Leeds, UK)4. Pentecostal Productions of Locality: Urban Risks and Spiritual Protection in Cape Town, Marian Burchardt (Post-doctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany)Part Two: Religious media, publics, and global cultural flows 5. ‘The Future as news’: Astrology and mediated religion in Global Bangalore, Sahana Udupa (Associate Professor, Central European University, Hungary, and Senior Research Partner, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany)6. Theorizing Mediatization and Religious Agency in European Global Cities, David Herbert (Professor of Sociology, Kingston University, UK and Professor of Religion and Society, University of Agder, Norway)7. Godlessness in the Global City, Lois Lee (Lecturer in Secular Studies, University of Kent, UK)Part Three: Centralities, peripheries, and religious reterritorialization8. Marching for Jesus in Paris: Religious territorialization, public space, and the appropriation of centrality in a fragmented city, Yannick Fer (CNRS Researcher, GSRL, France) and Gwendoline Malogne-Fer (post-doctoral research student, GSRL, CNRS-EPHE, France) 9. Transnational religion, multiculturalism, and global suburbs: a case study from Vancouver, Claire Dwyer (Reader in Geography and Co-Director of the Migration Research Unit, University College London, UK)10. Place And The (Un-)Making Of Religious Peripheries: Weddings Among Kenyan Pentecostals In London,Leslie Fesenmyer (ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow at COMPAS, University of Oxford, UK)Part Four: Global migration, everyday multiculturalism, and religious place-making11. At Home in The Multicultural City: Islam and Religious Place-Making in Stuttgart, Germany, Petra Kuppinger (Professor of Anthropology, Monmouth College, USA)12. Religion as ‘urban white noise’ – material practices of everyday religion at the ‘unquiet frontiers’ of the hyper-diverse city, Chris Baker (William Temple Professor of Religion and Public Life, University of Chester, UK and Director of Research for the William Temple Foundation)13. Between wandering and staying put: Piety and urban mobility among young Somali women in multicultural London, Giulia Liberatore (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at COMPAS and Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, University of Oxford, UK)14. Religion, Migration, and the ‘Worlding’ of Urban Daily Life: Local and Transnational Pentecostalism in Rio De Janeiro, Gerda Heck (Assistant Professor of Sociology and Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo, Egypt)and Stephan Lanz (Senior Lecturer, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany)BibliographyIndex