Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa
Remaking the City
- 240 pages
- English
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Ideologies and Infrastructures of Religious Urbanization in Africa
Remaking the City
About this book
How do urbanization and development intersect with religious dynamics to shape contemporary African cityscapes? To answer this timely question, contributors from across Europe, North America and Africa are brought together to explore mega-cities including Lagos, Cape Town, Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa as powerful venues for the creation and implementation of religious models of urbanization and development. This book interrogates how religious socio-spatial models and strategies engage with challenges of infrastructural development, urban social cohesion, inequalities and inclusion. Chapters explore how faith-based practices of urban and infrastructural development link moral subjectivities with individual and wider aspirations for modernization, change, deliverance and prosperity. The volume brings together ethnographically rich and theoretically grounded case studies of religious urbanization across the African continent. It advances discussions of the ambivalent role of urban religion in development and documents the complex, multifaceted socio-cultural and political dynamics associated with religious urbanization in Africa.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Introduction: (Re)making the urban, (re)mapping the city
- Part I Religious infrastructures of ‘development’: Visions, discourses and scales
- Part II Territorialization, urban change and religious time-spaces
- Part III Moral subjects, remoralized spaces and the politics of knowledge
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Copyright Page