Ordinary Cities and Milieus of Innovation

Bibliographic Data

ID8206909
AuthorsMary Hancock (Departments of Anthropology and History, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, corresponding author), Smriti Sriniva (0000-0002-1420-1925, University of California, Davis, corresponding author), Smriti Srinivas (University of California, Davis)
Year2018
Volume86
Issue2
Pages454-472
Publication date2018-05-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Academy of Religion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7189 • E-ISSN: 1477-4585
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jaarel/lfx066
OpenAlexW2794017937
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited53

This introduces a roundtable on the articulations of religious practices and imaginaries with the creation and remaking of urban landscapes in Bangalore (India), Vinh City (Vietnam), and Houston and New Orleans (United States). While recognizing that urban expressions of religion are articulated with political and economic forces, this collection shifts the focus to the spatial, material, and sensory media with which the religious and the spiritual are enacted within urban life worlds. We aim to advance a critical intervention in the analysis of religion and spirituality, but also to map the ways that different publics create designs for and of urban life through religious and spiritual practices that may celebrate, interrogate, or challenge modernist, liberal, or postcolonial/postsocialist programs and geographies.

Aesthetics · Art · Environmental ethics · Intervention (counseling) · Political science · Politics · Publics · Sociology · Spirituality · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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