Rescripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis [Hardcover]

Drawing on case studies of urban settings across the world, this book provides a more nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the modern metropolis, and makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history, the sociology of religion and migration studies, as well as historical and urban geography and practical theology.Rescripting Religion in the City explores the role of faith and religious practices as strategies for understanding and negotiating the migratory experience. Leading international scholars draw on case studies of urban settings in the global north and south. Presenting a nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis' this book makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history, the sociology of religion and migration studies, as well as historical and urban geography and practical theology.Introduction, Jane Garnett and Alana Harris; Part I Conversations and Translations: Language' across Boundaries: Theologies and ethics of migration: Muslim and Christian perspectives, Susanna Snyder, Zayn Kassam, Anna Rowlands and Narzanin Massoumi; Scholarly languages I: migration, faith, ethnicity and political subjectivity, Michael Keith; Scholarly languages II: anthropology, religion and migration, Simon Coleman; Performative languages I: sound, music and migration in Jerusalems Old City, Abigail Wood; Performative languages II: Do what the Quran says and stay away from crack: Mirpuri Muslims, rap music and the city, Thomas Hodgson; Performative languages III: Belleville bazaar, Liz Hingley and Alice Hertzog. Part II Place and Space: The contagion of the sacred and the right to the city: modalities of belonging, becoming and participating amongst diasporic religious communities and the growth of the post-secular city, Chris Baker; Making a good death: Muslim burial sites and plC[