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ANTH 3368 Urban Life

Kemper "Religious Institutions and Cities"

INTRODUCTION

TYPOLOGIES OF RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN URBAN LIFE

"World" Religions and Local Religious Practices

"Centripetal" and "Centrifugal" Religious Traditions

Charisma and Structure in Religious Institutions

WESTERN PERSPECTIVES ON RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS AND CITIES

The Bible as a Guide to Understanding Urban Life

From Judaism to Christianity

Saint Augustine’s Interpretation of the Great Tradition: The City of God

Crusades and Cathedrals

European Expansion: God, Gold, and Glory

Reformed, and Always Being Reformed: Church, City States, and New Models of Governance

A "Methodical" Approach to the Problems of Industrial Cities

Missions to the Rest of the World

RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

The Rest of the World Comes to America

Megachurches in Urban America

Religious Institutions Beyond America

Asia

Europe

Africa

Latin America

CONCLUSION: NEW ISSUES FOR RELIGIOUS PRACTICES IN CITIES