Christianity and Culture in the City

A Postcolonial Approach

Samuel Cruz

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9780739176764
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach offers an introduction to the broad diversity of contemporary Christianities in a rich, complex, changing, and challenging city context. Cruz focuses upon a variety of changing communities with dynamic and striking cultural experiences, and the volume provides both scholarly and practical insights as to how Christianities in the city relate to and transform city institutions and communities that are undergoing dramatic shifts and invite opportunities for intentional study.

This book offers a provocative interdisciplinary examination to shed light upon the ways in which diverse city communities appropriate Christianity to better engage their economic, cultural, political, and religious environment. A post-colonial theoretical framework will help inform how Christianity serves to empower and reinvent fragmented, oppressed, and struggling city populations. The reader is offered various conceptual, theoretical, and pragmatic insights and knowledge for better interpreting, affirming, and engaging diverse Christianities in the city in a postcolonial era.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Use of Roman Catholic Material Culture, Ritual, and Devotional Practices in Haitian Vodou in the Greater Newark, New Jersey, Area
• Between the Runway and the Empty Tomb
• Praying Aloud, in Spanish, in the South Bronx
• Troubling the Waters
• Revelation 12–13
• The Church, the City, and Its Mission in the Twenty-first Century
• Conclusion
• Index
• About the Contributors