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Discourses, Institutions and Populations: Religion in an Urban Ecology (Report)

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  • Title: Discourses, Institutions and Populations: Religion in an Urban Ecology (Report)
  • Author : Cross Currents
  • Release Date : January 22, 2008
  • Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 84 KB

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I first met Lowell Livezey in Chicago in the early 1990s. Lowell was in the early stages of the Religion in Urban America Project (Livezey 2000a) and I was part of a group from the Department of Theology in Birmingham who had come to Chicago to explore questions of young people and violence in the city (Read and Wollaston 2001). It was clear to both of us that we shared a great deal in common. We were both fascinated by, even obsessed with, the city and the idea of the city. We had both had experience of community organizing in different fields. We were both committed to the idea that the study of the city must involve direct contact with real people and real communities. We both saw and hoped to be able to demonstrate the very important role that religion does, and should play within the contemporary city. There were also a number of significant differences. Lowell had far more experience in a range of different activities than I did; he was older and undoubtedly wiser. I had background training in anthropological and ethnographic methods that Lowell told me he wanted to learn from. The kind of cities I was used to in the UK, Manchester and Birmingham were very different from Chicago, Boston and New York, which have been the major centers for Lowell's work. More importantly, perhaps, Britain and the United States had had a very different history of religions, of religious institutions and of immigration and all these were to affect the different ways in which we each thought about essentially the same issues.


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