List of Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. PART 1. GOVERNANCE OF RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
6. 1. In Place of Ritual: Global City, Sacred Space, and the Guanyin Temple in Singapore 21
7. 2. The City and the Pagoda: Buddhist Spatial Tactics in Shanghai 37
8. 3. Territorial Cults and the Urbanization of the Chinese World: A Case Study of Suzhou 52
9. 4. Global and Religious: Urban Aspirations and the Governance of Religions in Metro Manila 69
10. 5. The Muharram Procession of Mumbai: From Seafront to Cemetery 89
11. 6. Urban Processions: Colonial Decline and Revival as Heritage in Postcolonial Hong Kong 110
12. PART 2. SPACE, SPECULATION, AND RELIGION
13. 7. Urban Megachurches and Contentious Religious Politics in Seoul 133
14. 8. Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good (Trust) Deeds: Parsis, Risk, and Real Estate in Mumbai 152
15. 9. The Urban Development and Heritage Contestation of Bangkok’s Chinatown 168
16. 10. Dealing with the Dragon: Urban Planning in Hanoi 186
17. 11. Contested Religious Space in Jakarta: Negotiating Politics, Capital, and Ethnicity 201
18. 12. Urban Buddhism in the Thai Postmetropolis 219
19. PART 3. RELIGIOUS PLACE MAKING IN THE CITY
20. 13. From Village to City: Hinduism and the “Hindu Caste System” 237
21. 14. The Politics of Desecularization: Christian Churches and North Korean Migrants in Seoul 254
22. 15. Parallel Universes: Chinese Temple Networks in Singapore, or What Is Missing in the Singapore Model? 273
23. PART 4. SELF-FASHIONING IN URBAN SPACE
24. 16. The Flexibility of Religion: Buddhist Temples as Multiaspirational Sites in Contemporary Beijing 299
25. 17. Cultivating Happiness: Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Well-Being in a Transforming Urban China 315
26. 18. Other Christians as Christian Others: Signs of New Christian Populations and the Urban Expansion of Seoul 333
27. 19. Aspiring in Karachi: Breathing Life into the City of Death 351
28. 20. Can Commodities Be Sacred? Material Religion in Seoul and Hanoi 367
29. PART 5. MEDIA AND MATERIALITY
30. 21. Cinema and Karachi in the 1960s: Cultural Wounds and National Cohesion 387
31. 22. The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood 403
32. 23. Media, Urban Aspirations, and Religious Mobilization among Twelver Shiʻites in Mumbai 415
33. 24. Internet Hindus: Right-Wingers as New India’s Ideological Warriors 432
34. List of Contributors 451
35. Index 457