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“Urban religion" is not the generic term for any religion existing within an urban environment. This book demonstrates that examining early Christianity as an urban religion involves understanding ...
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Religion and urban life are the most successful strategies of handling, enhancing, and capitalizing on human sociability. By integrating religious studies, archaeology, and spatial theory, Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli aims to re-describe the formation of Christ religion as urban religion. Spanning almost four centuries of Christian literature from Paul to Augustine, the author shows that several characteristics commonly attributed to Christ religion are, in fact, outcomes of the distinct ways in which religious agents enact urbanity and interact with the urban space. The study brings the urbanity of religious agents into focus, shedding light on significant elements of religious transformation, innovation, institutionalization, empowerment, and resistance to power. Simultaneously, it explores the key urban features that shaped the emergence and development of Christ religion.
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Price: £127.50
Pages: 319
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Imprint: Mohr Siebeck
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament
Publication Date: 02 September 2024
ISBN: 9783161623714
Format: Hardcover
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RELIGION / History, History of religion, Christian Churches, denominations, groups, Religious institutions and organizations

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Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli Born 1983; PhD in History and Theology from the University of Turin and Geneva; PhD in Science of Culture at the Fondazione Collegio San Carlo di Modena; 2015-22 associate researcher at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies in Erfurt; Senior Assistant Professor in the History of Religions at the Department of History, Cultures, and Civilizations at the University of Bologna.
Table of contents: Citification of Religion: Studying Urban Religion Historically I. Jumping Among the Temples: Against the Polytheists' »Spatial Fix« II. An Archetypal Blasé? Justin Martyr, the Metropolitan Man, and the Segmentation of Urban Life III. (Good) People Next Door: Christ Religion in the Neighborhood IV. The Poverty Plateau: The Space of the Urban Street Poor V. Urban/e Distances: Secrecy, Discretion, and a Religious Guide to Urbanity VI. Smyrnean Detours: The Martyrdom of Polycarp as Urban Religious Event VII. Leading by Writing: Cyprian's Management of a Heterarchical Crisis VIII. Time to Build: Christians' »Right to the City« Between Dura and Tyre IX. A Tale of No Cities: Searching for Urbanity and Urban Religion in Augustine's City of God