Table of Contents

1. Introduction: spiritualizing the urban and the urbanesque

Victoria Hegner and Peter Jan Margry

Part I: The politics of religious plurality and identity

2. Local interfaith networks in urban integration politics: religious communities between innovation and cooptation

Eva Dick and Alexander-Kenneth Nagel

3. Preserving Catholic space and place in "The Rome of the West"

Tricia C. Bruce

Part II: Producing and negotiating religious space

4. Praying in Berlin’s Asiatown: religious place-making in a multi-ethnic bazaar

Gertrud Hüwelmeier

5. Framing the Pope within the urban space: John Paul II and the cityscape of Kraków

Anna Niedźwiedź

6. Religious mediations in a dense cityscape: experience of Catholic and Buddhist spaces in Hong Kong

Mariske Westendorp

7. Spiritualizing the suburbs: new religious architecture in suburban London and Vancouver

Claire Dwyer

8. Multiculturalism, veiling fashion and mosques: a religious topography of Islam in Berlin

Synnøve Bendixsen

Part III: The agency of body and senses in spiritualized practices

9. The dance floor as urban altar: how ecstatic dancers transform the lived experience of cities

Sarah M. Pike

10. A saxophone divine: experiencing the transformative power of Saint John Coltrane’s jazz music in San Francisco's Fillmore District

Peter Jan Margry and Daniel Wojcik

11. "Singing is prayer two times": a transnational perspective on "religious music," musical performance and urban religiosity in Cameroon and Switzerland

Raphaela von Weichs

About the Author

Victoria Hegner is Senior Researcher at the Department of Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at the Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany.

Peter Jan Margry is Professor of European Ethnology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.