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Handbook of Religion and the Asian City
Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century
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Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities. It does not assume that religion is of the past and that the urban is secular, but instead points out that urban politics and governance often manifest religious boundaries and sensibilities—in short, that public religion is politics. The essays in this book show how projects of secularism come up against projects and ambitions of a religious nature, a particular form of contestation that takes the city as its public arena.
Questioning the limits of cities like Mumbai, Singapore, Seoul, Beijing, Bangkok, and Shanghai, the authors assert that Asian cities have to be understood not as global models of futuristic city planning but as larger landscapes of spatial imagination that have specific cultural and political trajectories. Religion plays a central role in the politics of heritage that is emerging from the debris of modernist city planning.
Megacities are arenas for the assertion of national and transnational aspirations as Asia confronts modernity. Cities are also sites of speculation, not only for those who invest in real estate but also for those who look for housing, employment, and salvation. In its potential and actual mobility, the sacred creates social space in which they all can meet. Handbook of Religion and the Asian City makes the comparative case that one cannot study the historical patterns of urbanization in Asia without paying attention to the role of religion in urban aspirations.
Questioning the limits of cities like Mumbai, Singapore, Seoul, Beijing, Bangkok, and Shanghai, the authors assert that Asian cities have to be understood not as global models of futuristic city planning but as larger landscapes of spatial imagination that have specific cultural and political trajectories. Religion plays a central role in the politics of heritage that is emerging from the debris of modernist city planning.
Megacities are arenas for the assertion of national and transnational aspirations as Asia confronts modernity. Cities are also sites of speculation, not only for those who invest in real estate but also for those who look for housing, employment, and salvation. In its potential and actual mobility, the sacred creates social space in which they all can meet. Handbook of Religion and the Asian City makes the comparative case that one cannot study the historical patterns of urbanization in Asia without paying attention to the role of religion in urban aspirations.
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Contributor: Peter van der Veer
Peter van der Veer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen and University Professor at Large at Utrecht University. He is the author of The Modern Spirit of Asia, Gods on Earth, Religious Nationalism, and Imperial Encounters, among other publications.
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
1 - PART 1. GOVERNANCE OF RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
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1. In Place of Ritual: Global City, Sacred Space, and the Guanyin Temple in Singapore
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2. The City and the Pagoda: Buddhist Spatial Tactics in Shanghai
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3. Territorial Cults and the Urbanization of the Chinese World: A Case Study of Suzhou
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4. Global and Religious: Urban Aspirations and the Governance of Religions in Metro Manila
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5. The Muharram Procession of Mumbai: From Seafront to Cemetery
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6. Urban Processions: Colonial Decline and Revival as Heritage in Postcolonial Hong Kong
110 - PART 2. SPACE, SPECULATION, AND RELIGION
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7. Urban Megachurches and Contentious Religious Politics in Seoul
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8. Good Thoughts, Good Words, and Good (Trust) Deeds: Parsis, Risk, and Real Estate in Mumbai
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9. The Urban Development and Heritage Contestation of Bangkok’s Chinatown
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10. Dealing with the Dragon: Urban Planning in Hanoi
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11. Contested Religious Space in Jakarta: Negotiating Politics, Capital, and Ethnicity
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12. Urban Buddhism in the Thai Postmetropolis
219 - PART 3. RELIGIOUS PLACE MAKING IN THE CITY
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13. From Village to City: Hinduism and the “Hindu Caste System”
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14. The Politics of Desecularization: Christian Churches and North Korean Migrants in Seoul
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15. Parallel Universes: Chinese Temple Networks in Singapore, or What Is Missing in the Singapore Model?
273 - PART 4. SELF-FASHIONING IN URBAN SPACE
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16. The Flexibility of Religion: Buddhist Temples as Multiaspirational Sites in Contemporary Beijing
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17. Cultivating Happiness: Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Well-Being in a Transforming Urban China
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18. Other Christians as Christian Others: Signs of New Christian Populations and the Urban Expansion of Seoul
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19. Aspiring in Karachi: Breathing Life into the City of Death
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20. Can Commodities Be Sacred? Material Religion in Seoul and Hanoi
367 - PART 5. MEDIA AND MATERIALITY
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21. Cinema and Karachi in the 1960s: Cultural Wounds and National Cohesion
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22. The Cinematic Soteriology of Bollywood
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23. Media, Urban Aspirations, and Religious Mobilization among Twelver Shiʻites in Mumbai
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24. Internet Hindus: Right-Wingers as New India’s Ideological Warriors
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List of Contributors
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Index
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Keywords for this book
asian religions; politics of space asia; asian politics; asian religious customs; urban theory; religion and secularism asia; sacred space; singapore; guanyin temple; buddhism; buddhist temples; suzhou; philippines; mumbai; religions of asia; religious spaces in asia; asian megachurches; urban spaces in asia; urban planning asia; twelver shiites; asias urban aspirations; modern religion in asia; public religion asia; asian secularism; contested space asia; politics of space; politics; asian cities; public religion; religion
