Urban Religious Events HARDBACK 9781350175464

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Explore the dynamic relationship between urban religious landscapes and contemporary city life. This insightful book features case studies from across the globe, examining how religious events like rituals, processions, and festivals are not just expressions of tradition but also powerful forces that shape and contest urban social processes. Discover how these events reveal and challenge urban cultural hierarchies, and gain a deeper understanding of the affective disruptions and political controversies they can cause. Engaging with key theories in urban studies, the sociology of religion, and the ethnography of ritual, this book offers a significant contribution to understanding emerging patterns in contemporary religion, heritagization, eventization, and urbanization. Summary: Urban Religious Events book, Hardcover, English language, 272 pages, edited by Paul Bramadat, Mar Griera, Marian Burchardt, and Julia Martinez-Ariño. Explores public spirituality in contested urban spaces, analyzing rituals, processions, and festivals as disruptions that reveal and contest urban cultural hierarchies. Relevant for urban studies and sociology of religion.