The Intimate Solidarities of Religion in the City

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ID2156407
AuthorsM Herzfeld (0000-0002-8080-2542, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume27
Issue3
Pages265-272
Publication date2016-05-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHistory and Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0275-7206 • E-ISSN: 1477-2612
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02757206.2016.1172310
OpenAlexW2347115037
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited26

In responding to van der Veer's magisterially broad analysis, I urge greater emphasis on those aspects of religion in the city that reflect the more intimate concerns of its citizens, especially where their religiosity appears in the form of domestic spatial organization and of everyday sin and its recognition, rather than of strict doctrinal practice. I also suggest that urbanists' utopian visions might be better characterized as cosmological rather than as more narrowly religious, thereby permitting more productive comparison between those visions and everyday experience. In agreeing with van der Veer's description of modern Asian cities as "protestant", I suggest that their protestantism is not necessarily of primarily Christian inspiration; urban conditions encourage interest in religious reform as people grapple with the scalar aspect of his perspective

Aesthetics · Art · Everyday life · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Protestantism · Religiosity · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability

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