Overview
- Offers a fascinating and timely study of a ‘global city’
- Engages with the post-apartheid complexity of Johannesburg
- Makes an original contribution to the literature on urban diversity studies, religion and mobility
Part of the book series: Global Diversities (GLODIV)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Reviews
“Focusing on the particular global character of post-apartheid Johannesburg, this engrossing collection shows how the mobile bodies, practices, materialities, discourses and images that enact religion and spirituality are also fundamentally constitutive of urban social space.” (Mary Hancock, author, “The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai”)
“This book magisterially unpacks the movements and traces of religious practice in Johannesburg's urban space. With its incredible attention to both the visible and the invisible, the evanescent and the more permanent features of urban religious life, it represents a masterpiece of urban scholarship. Through marvellous ethnographies an unseen city emerges in front of us. Highly recommended to students of urban studies and religion alike.” (Marian Burchardt, author of “Faith in the Time of AIDS: Religion, Biopolitics and Modernity in South Africa”, and researcher at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Lorena Núñez is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa.
Peter Kankonde Bukasa is a doctoral researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany.
Bettina Malcomess is Lecturer in Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa. She is also an artist, writer and curator.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Routes and Rites to the City
Book Subtitle: Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg
Editors: Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, Lorena Núñez, Peter Kankonde Bukasa, Bettina Malcomess
Series Title: Global Diversities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58890-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58889-0Published: 07 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95469-8Published: 15 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58890-6Published: 20 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-2580
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2599
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 329
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Ethnography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)