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Gods of the city : religion and the American urban landscape /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Orsi, Robert A. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©1999.
Series:Religion in North America.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: crossing the city line / Robert A. Orsi
  • Staying grounded in a high-rise building: ecological dissonance and ritual accommodation in Haitian vodou / Karen McCarthy Brown
  • The Hindu gods in a split-level world: the Sri Siva-Vishnu Temple in suburban Washington, D.C. / Joanne Punzo Waghorne
  • Diasporic nationalism and urban landscape: Cuban immigrants at a Catholic shrine in Miami / Thomas A. Tweed
  • Altared spaces: Afro-Cuban religions and the urban landscape in Cuba and the United States / David H. Brown
  • Moses of the south Bronx: aging and dying in the old neighborhood / Jack Kugelmass
  • The religious boundaries of an in-between people: street feste and the problem of the dark-skinned other in Italian Harlem, 1920-1990 / Robert A. Orsi
  • Heritage, ritual, and translation: Seattle's Japanese Presbyterian church / Madeline Duntley
  • "We go where the Italians live": religious processions as ethnic and territorial markers in a multi-ethnic Brooklyn neighborhood / Joseph Sciorra
  • The stations of the cross: Christ, politics, and processions on New York City's Lower East Side / Wayne Ashley
  • "The Cathedral of the Open Air": the Salvation Army's sacralization of secular space, New York City, 1880-1910 / Diane Winston.