Religion in Los Angeles: Religious Activism, Innovation, and Diversity in the Global City

ISBN-13: 9780367439347 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 302 str.

Richard Flory; Diane Winston

Opis

Why has Los Angeles been a hot spot for religious activism, innovation, and diversity? A center of world religions, Los Angeles is the birthplace of Pentecostalism, the site of the largest Roman Catholic diocese in the U.S., the home of more Buddhists anywhere except for Asia, and home base for myriad transnational, spiritual movements.

Recenzje

"The twenty-seven scholarly pieces that make-up Religion in Los Angeles: Religious Activism, Innovation, and Diversity in the Global City are a valuable contribution to what appears to be a growing body of literature examining the relationship between cities and their religious components." - Stephanie L. Derrick, independent scholar

Spis treści

Section One: Then  1. Rivers of Living Water: Radical Social Behaviors and Religious Innovations on Azusa Street, 1906-1909.  2. Funding Fundamentalism: Lyman Stewart, Hard Financing and the Creation of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles  3. International Guru as Local Swami: Yogananda and the Religious Culture of Southern California  4. Borderlands Believers: Migrant Laborers and the Growth of Pentecostalism from Los Angeles  5. Religion and the Urban Civic Landscape: The Case of the Los Angeles County Committee for Church and Community  6. A Respectable Militancy: Rev. J. Raymond Henderson & the Civil Rights Struggle in Los Angeles, 1941-1963  7. The Pentecost Moment: Los Angeles as Global Christian Space in the Late-20^th Century  8. The "Flying Nun" and the "Painting Nun": Gender, Conflict, and Representation in 1960s Los Angeles.  9. Theosophy and the Realization of Southern California’s Divine Destiny  Section Two: Now  10. Redeeming the City: Los Angeles in the Social Imagination of an Urban Social Ministry  11. Expanding Never Again: The Cosmopolitan Parochialism of Los Angeles Jewish Mobilization on the Genocide in Darfur  12. Justice Activism and Latino Spiritualities: Los Angeles as a Post-Colonial Border Space  13. Sustaining Borderlands Traditions in a Latinx Pentecostal Church  14. Aum Shalom: Jews, Gurus and Religious Hybridity in the City of Angels  15. Korean Diaspora Churches in Los Angeles: Place Matters  16. Japanese Americans and the Birth (and Rebirth) of Buddhism in the City of Angels  17. The Legacy of Religious Diversity in Southern California.