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Religion in Los Angeles : religious activism, innovation, and diversity in the global city
Title
Religion in Los Angeles : religious activism, innovation, and diversity in the global city / edited by Richard Flory and Diane Winston.
ISBN
1000364976
1000365026
1003009018
9781000364972
9781000365023
9781003009016
0367439344
0367443252
9780367439347
9780367443252
Publication
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 302 pages) : illustrations.
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Summary
"Why has Los Angeles been a hot spot for religious activism, innovation, and diversity? What makes this Southern California metropolis conducive to spiritual experimentation and new ways of believing and belonging? A center of world religions, Los Angeles is the birthplace of Pentecostalism, the site of the largest Roman Catholic diocese in the U.S., the home of more Buddhists anywhere except for Asia, and home base for myriad transnational, spiritual movements. Religion in Los Angeles examines historical and contemporary examples of Angelenos' openness to new forms of belief and practice in congregations, communities, and civic life. Case studies include: Latino spiritualities and social activism, Hybrid Jewish identities, Capitalism and fundamentalism in early 20th century Los Angeles, The impact of the 1960s on Roman Catholic Angelenos, Christianity through a Hindu lens. Highlighted throughout the work are themes including the impact of the city's diversity on religious experimentation, the importance of Los Angeles' location in relation to the Mexican border and as a gateway to the Pacific, and the impact of local politics, social trends and cultural change on religious innovation. The volume also examines the creative pull between change and continuity and the recognition that religious communities participate in civic and global conversations. Religion in Los Angeles includes contributions by leading sociologists, anthropologists, and historians. This cutting-edge work will be of interest to students and scholars of religious history, religion in America, sociology of religion, American studies, urban studies, and race/ethnic studies"-- Provided by publisher.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
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ebook version :
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Rivers of Living Water: Radical Social Behaviors and Religious Innovations on Azusa Street, 1906-1909 / Caroline Bunnell Harris
Funding Fundamentalism: Lyman Stewart, Hard Financing and the Creation of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles / Christina Copland
International Guru as Local Swami: Yogananda and the Religious Culture of Southern California / David J. Neumann
Borderlands Believers: Migrant Laborers and the Growth of Pentecostalism from Los Angeles / Lloyd Barba
Religion and the Urban Civic Landscape: The Case of the Los Angeles County Committee for Church and Community / Mark Wild
A Respectable Militancy: Rev. J. Raymond Henderson & the Civil Rights Struggle in Los Angeles, 1941-1963 / David J. Neumann
The Pentecost Moment: Los Angeles as Global Christian Space in the Late-20th Century / Sean Dempsey
The Flying Nun and the Painting Nun: Gender, Conflict, and Representation in 1960s Los Angeles / Diane Winston
Theosophy and the Realization of Southern California's Divine Destiny / Grace Converse
Redeeming the City: Los Angeles in the Social Imagination of an Urban Social Ministry / Richard Flory and Bradly Nabors
Expanding Never Again: The Cosmopolitan Parochialism of Los Angeles Jewish Mobilization on the Genocide in Darfur / Brie Loskota, Jennifer Thompson and Tobin Belzer
Justice Activism and Latino Spiritualities: Los Angeles as a Post-Colonial Border Space / Helene Slessarev-Jamir
Sustaining Borderlands Traditions in a Latinx Pentecostal Church / Jonathan Calvillo
Aum Shalom: Jews, Gurus and Religious Hybridity in the City of Angels / Amanda J. Lucia and Michael Scott Alexander
Korean Diaspora Churches in Los Angeles: Place Matters / Sung Gun Kim
Japanese Americans and the Birth (and Rebirth) of Buddhism in the City of Angels / Jean-Paul R. deGuzman
The Legacy of Religious Diversity in Southern California / Bruce Phillips.
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