Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa Remaking the City
Synopsis
How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answer this timely question, contributors from across Europe, North America and Africa are brought together to explore mega-cities including Lagos, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa as powerful venues for the creation and implementation of religious models of urbanization and development. This book interrogates how religious socio-spatial models and strategies engage with challenges of infrastructural development, urban social cohesion, inequalities and inclusion. Chapters explore how faith-based practices of urban and infrastructural development link moral subjectivities with individual and wider aspirations for modernization, change, deliverance and prosperity. The volume brings together ethnographically rich and theoretically grounded case studies of religious urbanization across the African continent. It advances discussions of the ambivalent role of urban religion in development and documents the complex, multifaceted socio-cultural and political dynamics associated with religious urbanization in Africa.Book details
- Series:
- Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
- Author:
- David Garbin, Simon Coleman and Gareth Millington
- ISBN:
- 9781350152601
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781350152120
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- Yes
- Date of addition:
- 2022-11-17
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2023
- Copyright by:
- David Garbin, Simon Coleman and Gareth Millington
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Sociology