Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Diamond, Etan

Title Souls of the city : religion and the search for community in postwar America / Etan Diamond
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2003

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xii, 199 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Polis Center series on religion and urban culture
Polis Center series on religion and urban culture.
Contents Metropolitan growth and religious change : an introduction -- "Hi, neighbor!" : building new religious communities in suburbia -- From small town to mall town : rural communities and their congregations -- What is "our" community? The dilemma of the inner-city congregation -- Tying the metropolis together -- Finding community in the modern metropolis
Summary Who has time for community in the modern metropolis? The answer may surprise you: apparently lots of us. As this book discusses, religious communities have long been an important way for people in all parts of the modern city to come together. Focusing on Indianapolis, Indiana, a city in America's geographical and cultural heartland, Souls of the City describes the range of changes to America's city and American religion during the last decades of the 20th century. In showing the historical ability of religious congregations to become 'places' of worship, this book challenges those who l
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Print version record
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Subject Cities and towns -- United States -- Religion
RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
Gemeindeaufbau
Stadt
Communautés -- États-Unis -- 1945- ...
Communautés religieuses -- États-Unis -- 1945- ...
Villes -- États-Unis -- Aspect religieux -- 1945- ...
SUBJECT United States -- Religious life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140506
Subject United States
USA
États-Unis -- Civilisation -- 1945- ...
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0253109817
9780253109811
0203109813
9780203109816
9780253342560
0253342562