Title Gods of the city : religion and the American urban landscape / edited by Robert A. Orsi

Published Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 402 pages) : illustrations Series Religion in North America Religion in North America. Contents Introduction: crossing the city line / Robert A. Orsi -- Staying grounded in a high-rise building: ecological dissonance and ritual accommodation in Haitian vodou / Karen McCarthy Brown -- The Hindu gods in a split-level world: the Sri Siva-Vishnu Temple in suburban Washington, D.C. / Joanne Punzo Waghorne -- Diasporic nationalism and urban landscape: Cuban immigrants at a Catholic shrine in Miami / Thomas A. Tweed -- Altared spaces: Afro-Cuban religions and the urban landscape in Cuba and the United States / David H. Brown -- Moses of the south Bronx: aging and dying in the old neighborhood / Jack Kugelmass -- The religious boundaries of an in-between people: street feste and the problem of the dark-skinned other in Italian Harlem, 1920-1990 / Robert A. Orsi -- Heritage, ritual, and translation: Seattle's Japanese Presbyterian church / Madeline Duntley -- "We go where the Italians live": religious processions as ethnic and territorial markers in a multi-ethnic Brooklyn neighborhood / Joseph Sciorra -- The stations of the cross: Christ, politics, and processions on New York City's Lower East Side / Wayne Ashley -- "The Cathedral of the Open Air": the Salvation Army's sacralization of secular space, New York City, 1880-1910 / Diane Winston Summary Annotation Urban religion strikes many as an oxymoron. How can religion prosper in the alienated, secular, fast-paced, and materialistic world of the modern, Western city?<br />But much of what is characteristic about American religious life has developed in cities. Pentecostalism, settlement houses, Christian Science, The various forms of modern American Judaism, gospel and soul music, immigrant street shrines and festivals, And The American encounter with the many religious traditions of Africa and Asia, To cite just a few examples, are all phenomena of cities. The challenge of the cities to customary American moral understandings at the turn of the century provoked the development of innovative institutions, theologies, and pastoral strategies in long-established American denominations. Religious idioms, improvised, recreated, and invented, served as media for immigrants and migrants in making new lives for themselves and their children in between the memories of the places they left And The realities of their new homes; in the process both religion and city were changed.<br />The authors in this collection believe that there are distinctly urban forms of religious experience and practice that have developed in relation To The spaces, social conditions, and history of industrial and post-industrial cities. Citieseach with its specific geography, social and political history, demographics, and architectureare not merely the settings for religious experience and expression, but materials of them, too. People work on city spaces and realities in their religious practice, As the city works on them.<br />The introductory chapter, Crossing the City Line, establishes the broad historical context For The volume, and develops the theoretical issues and perspectives that orient the collection. The essays that follow offer close-grained studies, ethnographic and historical in method, Of the struggles of Haitian vodou practitioners to serve the spirits in the unfamiliar landscape of New York City; the contested construction and interpretation of places of worship by Hindu immigrants in suburban Maryland, Asian American Presbyterians in Seattle, and Cuban Catholics in Miami; the transformation of city apartments into suitable venues For The spirits of santeria in New York and New Jersey; the role of Italian American street festivals in staking out and negotiating the boundaries between neighborhoods, races, and ethnic groups in Brooklyn and East Harlem; political conflict during a Good Friday Stations of the Cross on the Lower East Side; And The transformation of New York city streets into a cathedral of the open air by Salvation Army lassies at the turn of the century.<br />Religion in North America seriesCatherine L. Albanese and Stephen J. Stein, editors<br /> Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Cities and towns -- Religious aspects. Cities and towns -- United States Religion. Religion religion (discipline) RELIGION -- History. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Religious. Cities and towns Cities and towns -- Religious aspects Religion SUBJECT United States -- Religion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140498 Subject United States Form Electronic book Author Orsi, Robert A., editor LC no. 98048338 ISBN 0585218250 9780585218250 9780253334992 0253334993 9780253212764 0253212766

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