Faith on the Avenue
Religion on a City Street
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 23 January 2014
- ISBN 9780199860029
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 165x239x27 mm
- Weight 488 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 78 photos 0
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Short description:
In a revelatory study of Philadelphia's Germantown Avenue, home to a diverse array of more than 90 congregations, Katie Day explores the formative and multifaceted role of religious congregations within an urban environment.
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In a richly illustrated, revelatory study of Philadelphia's Germantown Avenue, home to a diverse array of more than 90 Christian and Muslim congregations, Katie Day explores the formative and multifaceted role of religious congregations within an urban environment.
Germantown Avenue cuts through Philadelphia for eight and a half miles, from the affluent neighborhood of Chestnut Hill to the high crime section known as ''the Badlands.'' The congregations along this route range from the wealthiest to the poorest populations in Philadelphia. Some congregants are immigrants who find safety and support in close fellowship, while others are long-time residents whose congregations are actively involved in providing social services. Cities undergo constant change, and their congregations change with them. As Day observes, some congregations have sprung up in former commercial strips, harboring new arrivals and recreating a sense of home, and others form an anchor for a neighborhood across generations, providing a connection to the past and a hope of stability for the future.
Social scientists, urban planners, and politicians have long overlooked the agency of communities of faith in the construction of the social, cultural, economic, and physical reality of life in the city. Drawing on years of research, in-depth interviews with religious leaders and congregants, and a wealth of demographic data, Day demonstrates the powerful influence cities exert on their congregations, and the surprising and important impact congregations have on their urban environments.
Unique as well as worthwhile.
Table of Contents:
Index of Pictures and Figures
Introduction
1. Mapping Faith on the Avenue
2. Constructing the Sacred in Space and Place
3. Seeking the Welfare of the City
4. Pound for Pound: The Social Impact of Small Churches
5. Pentecostal Latinas: Engendering Selves in Storefront Congregations
6. Muslims on the Block: Navigating the Urban Ecology
7. Urban Flux: Mobility, Change and Communities of Faith
Bibliography
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