| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 326 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; The Contributors; Part I: Fundamentalisms: Between City and Nation; Chapter 1: The Fundamentalist City?; Chapter 2: Why in the City? Explaining Urban Fundamentalism; Chapter 3: The Civility of Inegalitarian Citizenships; Part II: Fundamentalisms and Urbanism; Chapter 4: American National Identity, the Rise of the Modern City, and the Birth of Protestant Fundamentalism; Chapter 5: Producing and Contesting the 'Communalized City': Hindutva Politics and Urban Space in Ahmedabad |
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Chapter 6: On Religiosity and Spatiality: Lessons from Hezbollah in BeirutChapter 7: Hamas in Gaza Refugee Camps: The Construction of Trapped Spaces for the Survival of Fundamentalism; Part III: Identity, Tradition, and Fundamentalisms; Chapter 8: Abraham's Urban Footsteps: Political Geography and Religious Radicalism in Israel/Palestine; Chapter 9: Fundamentalism at the Urban Frontier: the Taliban in Peshawar; Chapter 10: Taking the (Inner) City for God: Ambiguities of Urban Soci |
| Summary |
The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundamentalisms are produced, represented, and practiced in the city. It explores the intellectual and practical challenges posed by fundamentalist groups, movements, and organizations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion and geography.
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Cities and towns -- Religious aspects.
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City planning -- Religious aspects.
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Religion and sociology.
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Cities and towns -- Religious aspects.
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City planning -- Religious aspects.
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Religion and geography.
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Religion and sociology.
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Fundamentalism.
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Nationalism -- religiösa aspekter.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Massoumi, Mejgan
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| ISBN |
9780203844595 |
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0203844599 |
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