This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by aspects of global city dynamics. Theoretically grounded and empirically informed, Religion and the Global City advances discussions in the field of urban religion, and establishes future research directions.
David Garbin and Anna Strhan bring together a wealth of ethnographically rich and vivid case studies in a diversity of urban settings, in both Global North and Global South contexts. These case studies are drawn from both 'classical' global cities such as London and Paris, and...
This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by aspects of global city dynamics. Theoretically grounde...
Military Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of Conflict is the first volume to bring together a detailed analysis of professional military pilgrimage with other forms of commemorating military conflict. Using a comparative approach towards what has mostly been categorised as secular pilgrimage, the volume explores the relationship between religious, military and civilian participants. It questions western etic definitions of religion and locates this challenge within a cross-cultural analysis of emic categorisations where respondents and researchers seek to understand their journeys and...
Military Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of Conflict is the first volume to bring together a detailed analysis of professional military pilgrimage wi...
This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines the ways in which pilgrimage relates to migration, diaspora, and political cooperation or conflict across nation-states.
This volume explores how wider factors behind transnational and global mobility have impacted on pilgrimage activity across the world, and examines th...
