Overview
- Focuses on religious institutions and organizations within megacities in Asia as well as smaller urban areas within India
- Describes the changing contours of religiosity as part of the processes of urbanization
- Details the creation of “no-places,” defined as newer instantiations of older religious realms of the universal and the utopian in the form of cyberspace as well as new sites intentionally disconnected from place
- Discusses the (re)creation of shrines/temples/churches within new urban areas
Part of the book series: ARI - Springer Asia Series (ARI, volume 5)
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Table of contents(11 chapters)
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Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Religion, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA
Joanne Punzo Waghorne
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Place/No-Place in Urban Asian Religiosity
Editors: Joanne Punzo Waghorne
Series Title: ARI - Springer Asia Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0385-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0384-4Published: 26 July 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9148-3Published: 31 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0385-1Published: 15 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2367-105X
Series E-ISSN: 2367-1068
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 229
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Religion, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Religious Studies, general, Urbanism