Gender and Religion in the City: Women, Urban Planning and Spirituality

ISBN-13: 9781138385108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 252 str.

Clara Greed

Opis

While there have been many books that deal with religion and cities; gender and cities; and gender and religion, this book draws together these three components and provides an innovative view on how religion and gender interact and affect urban development.

Spis treści

Part 1: Background  1. Introduction: Interactions between Gender, Urban Space and Religion  2. The Post Secular City: Site of Emancipation or False Dawn  Part 2: Women, Cities and Christianity  3. An Overview of Catholic Christianity and Women and Space: Past and Present  4. Spaces of Inter-faith Dialogue between Protestant and Muslim Communities in Germany  5. Praying in Plain Sight: Women in the Public Realm in a Greek Orthodox Cypriot City  6. Pentecostal and Personal Perspectives: Gender, Faith, Urban Space and Town Planning  Part 3: Women, Cities and Islam  7. Islamic and Christian Cities during the Medieval Period: Iberia and North Africa  8. Women in the Muslim City: with Reference to Nablus Palestine  9. Afghani Muslim Women in Auckland, New Zealand: Making Places  Part 4: Non-Religious Space and Women  10. Postsecular Urbanism and the Hidden Values of Gendered Spaces  11. Neo- Paganisms, ‘Dark Green Religion’ And What The Divine Feminine Might Mean For Planning  Part 5: Planning Policy and Change 12. The Planning System and Places of Worship in relation to the Anglican church  13. A Woman Faith Practitioner’s Experience in the UK Night-Time Economy  14. Faith, Gender and the Planning System in the UK  15. Planning for Religion: As if it Really Mattered

O autorze

Clara Greed is Emerita Professor of Inclusive Urban Planning at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. She is the author/editor of over 12 books, including, Women and Planning: Creating Gendered Realities (1994), Planning in the UK: An Introduction (2014), Inclusive Urban Design: Public Toilets (Routledge, 2003).