Discourses on Religious Diversity

Stringer, Martin D.

doi:10.4324/9781315577531

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“…Many scholars have therefore explored the kinds of practices through which religious minority or newcomer communities articulate claims to be recognised as worthy participants in urban society (Bandak 2014;Constable 1997Constable , 2009Stringer 2013). Conversely, others have examined the strategies of 'place-keeping' (Becci, Burchardt, and Giorda 2017) through which religious majorities are able to secure their hegemonic status, and how such practices may be reinforced in response to the challenges presented by minorities.…”

Section: Theories and Ethnographies Of Urban Religion: Expanding The mentioning

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The im-materiality of urban religion: towards an ethnography of urban religious aspirations

Burchardt

Westendorp

2018

Culture and Religion

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In recent years, scholars from a wide variety of disciplines have engaged in the study of urban religion. Taken together, these studies form a paradigm that intertwines (1) the politics of belonging, (2) regimes of space and territoriality, (3) materiality and sensorial power and (4) visibility. We argue that while scholars have conceptualised these aspects in very nuanced ways, there is a need to address in a more rigorous way immaterial dimensions of urban religion. We encapsulate these immaterial dimensions in the notion of 'urban religious aspirations' , meaning the multiple ideational sources that underpin people's religious investments in urban life. We illustrate the relevance of studying aspirations with an ethnographic example of two Hong Kong Christian women and their involvement in the Umbrella Movement. Exploring their narratives demonstrates the need to take immaterial aspects of religious life into account when researching urban religion, especially in contexts where the distinction between the religious and the secular is less clearly defined.

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Section: Theories and Ethnographies Of Urban Religion: Expanding The mentioning

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The im-materiality of urban religion: towards an ethnography of urban religious aspirations

Burchardt

Westendorp

2018

Culture and Religion

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“…5 The discursive context inevitably informs practice, as Stringer's example of the dynamic discourse and practice of interreligious solidarity in one Birmingham neighborhood during Britain's 2011 riots suggested. 6 Second, practices constitute and shape private and public spaces, as well as themselves being informed by the contexts and places in which they are enacted. 7 Tweed's account of the journey by sea of Our Lady of Charity from Cuba to Miami in 1961 and the consecration of her shrine by Miami's Cuban Catholics some twelve years later demonstrates the mutual relationship between practices and their places.…”

Section: Migrant Religious Practice: Types Scales and Conditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%