Topographies of Faith

Irene Becci, Ph.D. (1973), University of Lausanne, is Assistant Professor of New Spiritualities at the Institute for the Social Scientific Study of Contemporary Religion. She has published Imprisoned Religion (Ashgate, 2012) and numerous articles on religion in post-socialist Germany, Italy and in Switzerland.Marian Burchardt, Ph.D. (1975) is research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. His work on religious dynamics in Africa and Europe appeared in Sociology of Religion, Comparative Sociology, Oxford Development Studies, and in the Journal of Religion in Europe.José Casanova, Ph.D. (1951) is a professor at the Department of Sociology at Georgetown University, and heads the Berkley Center's Program on Globalization, Religion and the Secular. He has published works in a broad range of subjects, including religion and globalization, migration and religious pluralism, transnational religions, and sociological theory. His best-known work, Public Religions in the Modern World (1994), has become a modern classic in the field.

"Religion has always been a part of city life and urban spaces, and one has always influenced another. What makes Topographies of Faith a valuable and insightful volume is also the underlying question of how this influence can be aimed at community building and integration. The recognition of religious communities as part and parcel of the urban environment may be a key factor in understanding future global cities." - Marta Kołodziejska, University of Warsaw, in: Religion, 44:4"Au total, le livre se révèle fort intéressant, autant par la démarche théorique désireuse de réévaluer la place des faits religieux dans les grandes métropoles mondiales, que par les analyses de cas précises." - Frédéric Dejean, Université de Montréal, France