Urban Religious Events: Public Spirituality in Contested Spaces

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Contents
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Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Religious Events in Contemporary Cities
Part 1: After the Secular City: Religion and Urban Effervescence
	2 Religion from the Street: Religious Expression in a Popular Colonia, Mexico City
	3 Staging Green Spirituality in the Parks of Lausanne and Geneva: A Spatial Approach to Urban Ecological Festivals
	4 Constructing a Religioscape: The Case of Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow
	5 Festivals of Religions and Religious Festivals: Heritigized Heterotopias
Part 2: The Politics of Religion in Urban Spaces: Power and Symbolism in the City
	6 A Bridge Too Far: Yoga, Spirituality, and Contested Space in the Pacific Northwest
	7 “It’s the First Sukkah since the Inquisition!”: Jewish Celebrations in Public Spaces in Barcelona
	8 Spatial Discourses of Sanctity as a Means of Struggle and Empowerment in a Contested City
	9 Decoding Strategic Secularism in Madrid: Religion as Ambience in Three Scenarios
Part 3: Public Religious Events, Urban Transcendence, and Embodied Spirituality
	10 Urbi et Orbi: Pope Benedict’s Visit to Berlin and the Emplacement of Communicative Events
	11 Turning Spirituality into a Public Event: The Popularization of Collective Meditations in the Urban Space
	12 God’s Warriors: Embodying Evangelical Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Rio de Janeiro
	13 Feeling Sufis: An Essay on Intimate Religion in Berlin
	14 Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Imprint