Public Religion and Urban Transformation : : Faith in the City / / ed. by Lowell W. Livezey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Daniels, David D.,; D’Agostino, Peter R.,; Hurtig, Janise D.,; Laudarji, Isaac B.,; Livezey, Lowell W.,; Numrich, Paul D.,; Price, Matthew J.,; Warner, R. Stephen,; Wedam, Elfriede,
• HerausgeberIn: Livezey, Lowell W.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Part I. Introduction --; Metropolitan Chicago: Places Of Public Religion & Urban Transformation --; 1. The New Context of Urban Religion --; Part II. Religion in a City of Neighborhoods --; Pilsen --; 2. Hispanic Immigrant Churches and the Construction of Ethnicity --; 3. Place, Race, and History: The Social Mission of Downtown Churches --; 4. The Churches and the Poor in a “Ghetto Underclass”Neighborhood --; 5. “God Doesn’t Ask What Language I Pray In”: Community and Culture on Chicago’s Southwest Side --; 6. Communities and Enclaves:Where Jews, Christians, Hindus, and Muslims Share the Neighborhoods --; 7. “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ’Round”: The Politics of Race and the New Black Middle-Class Religion --; 8. Change, Stress, and Congregations in an Edge-City Technoburb --; Part III. Religion and the New Metropolitan Context --; Residences of Old St. Patrick's Member Households --; 9. Catholic Spirituality in a New Urban Church --; 10. Recent Immigrant Religions and the Restructuring of Metropolitan Chicago --; 11. Catholic Planning for a Multicultural Metropolis, 1982–1996 --; Part IV. Epilogue --; Epilogue. Building Religious Communities at the Turn of the Century --; Appendix. Religious Organizations Studied and Names of Principal Contact Persons --; Bibliography --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814765081; 9783110706444
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814765081.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Lowell W. Livezey.

American cities are in the midst of fundamental changes. De-industrialization of large, aging cities has been enormously disruptive for urban communities, which are being increasingly fragmented. Though often overlooked, religious organizations are important actors, both culturally and politically in the restructuring metropolis. Public Religion and Urban Transformation provides a sweeping view of urban religion in response to these transformations. Drawing on a massive study of over seventy-five congregations in urban neighborhoods, this volume provides the most comprehensive picture available of urban places of worship-from mosques and gurdwaras to churches and synagogues-within one city. Revisiting the primary site of research for the early members of the Chicago School of urban sociology, the volume focuses on Chicago, which provides an exceptionally clear lens on the ways in which religious organizations both reflect and contribute to changes in American pluralism. From the churches of a Mexican American neighborhood and of the Black middle class to communities shared by Jews, Christians, Hindus, and Muslims and the rise of "megachurches," Public Religion and Urban Transformation illuminates the complex interactions among religion, urban structure, and social change at this extraordinary episode in the history of urban America.