Spiritualizing the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spiritualizing the City write by Victoria Hegner. This book was released on 2016-11-25. Spiritualizing the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban spaces have always functioned as cradles and laboratories for religious movements and spiritualities. The urban forms a central and nourishing agent for the creation of new religious expressions, and continually negotiates new ways of being spiritual and establishing spiritual ideas and practices. This book explores the intense and complex interplay between the (post) modern city and new religious and spiritual movement, bringing the city and its annexes into the foreground of current research into religion. It develops a new, ethnography-based analysis of the ways in which the pluralist experience of the "urban" inscribes itself into various religious practices and vice versa: how do religiosity and spirituality appropriate and transform meanings of the urban? It focuses on new religious expressions, cosmologies and ways of life that go beyond established belief systems and religious understandings, and explores new conceptions of the word "urban" in a world of increasingly extended urban environments. The book examines how cities are both considered as sites and sources of spirituality, where the globalization of religions takes place as well as the fact that globalization is linked closely to the process of localization. The socio-cultural and political uniqueness of the specific urban context are analyzed to present an innovative perspective on how the interplay between the urban, spiritual and religious should be understood. This book brings a timely new perspective and will be of interest to academics and students in geography, sociology, urban studies, cultural studies and anthropology, as well as for urban planners and policy makers.
The Spiritual City
The Spiritual City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spiritual City write by Philip Sheldrake. This book was released on 2014-04-03. The Spiritual City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Spiritual City provides a broad examination of the meaning and importance of cities from a Christian perspective. Contains thought-provoking theological and spiritual reflections on city-making by a leading scholar Unites contemporary thinking about urban space and built environments with the latest in urban theology Addresses the long-standing anti-urban bias of Christianity and its emphasis on inwardness and pilgrimage Presents an important religious perspective on the potential of cities to create a strong human community and sense of sacred space
Taking Our Cities for God
Taking Our Cities for God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taking Our Cities for God write by John Dawson. This book was released on 2002-03. Taking Our Cities for God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In Taking Our Cities for God, you will explore dynamic and life-changing strategies to help you tear down the strongholds that have held your community back from its full spiritual potential"--Page 4 of cover.
View from the Urban Loft
View from the Urban Loft - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook View from the Urban Loft write by Sean Benesh. This book was released on 2011-10-12. View from the Urban Loft available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the world hurtles towards urbanization at an ever-increasing pace, there arises the need for further theological reflection on the city. Globalization, international immigration, and densification in cities are having a transformative impact on the urban landscape. Urban mission is at the forefront of many denominations, church planting networks, ministries, and mission organizations yearning for citywide transformation. How are we to think biblically and theologically about the city? View from the Urban Loft will take readers through the development of cities throughout history, act as a guide to navigating the current forces shaping urban environments, and seek to uncover a theology of the city that gives Christians a rationale and a biblical understanding of the meaning and purposes of the city and then how to live in it for the glory of God.
Serving God in Today's Cities
Serving God in Today's Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Serving God in Today's Cities write by Patrick Johnstone. This book was released on 2018-06-26. Serving God in Today's Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the first time ever, more people now live in cities than outside them. Journey with veteran researcher and missiologist Patrick Johnstone and Dean Merrill as they explore the fastest growing cities and megacities in the world. Explore God's heart for the city and meet pastors, missionaries, and community workers who are addressing urbanization's key challenges.
