Rescripting Religion in the City
Subtitle: Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781409437741
Subjects: Cities and towns, religious life; Emigration and immigration; Identification (religion); Identity (psychology)
Description: Drawing on case studies of urban settings across the world, this book provides a more nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis', and makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history, the sociology of religion and migration studies, as well as historical and urban geography and practical theology.