Christianity and Culture in the City - A Postcolonial Approach

Informationen zum Autor Samuel Cruz is a sociologist of religion, race, sexuality and gender. Dr. Cruz is assistant professor of Church and Society at Union Theological Seminary City of New York. Dr. Cruz's publications include a book, Masked Africanisms: Puerto Rican Pentecostalism (Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2005) as well as a number of book chapters and journal articles on Latina/o and global Pentecostalism, urban religion and on the sociology of religion-principal areas of his research and teaching. Dr. Cruz is also Senior Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY. Klappentext This volume examines how the manifestation and development of diverse expressions of Christianities in the city offer potentialities and innovative models for the liberation struggles and gospel incarnation within various social, historical, economic, cultural/ethnic, sexual, and gender realities. Zusammenfassung This volume examines how the manifestation and development of diverse expressions of Christianities in the city offer potentialities and innovative models for the liberation struggles and gospel incarnation within various social! historical! economic! cultural/ethnic! sexual! and gender realities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Samuel CruzChapter 1: The Use of Roman Catholic Material Culture, Ritual, and Devotional Practices in Haitian Vodou in the Greater Newark, New Jersey Area: The Urban Context. Peter SavastanoChapter 2: Between the Runway and Empty Tomb: Bodily Transformations and Christian Praxis in New York City's House Ball Community. Edgar RiveraChapter 3: Praying Aloud, in Spanish, in the South BronxNicolas Dumit EstevezChapter 4: Troubling the Waters: Intimate Violence and the Church-Breaking the Hold of Shame and Secrecy Michelle L. NickensChapter 5: Revelation 12-13: A Guerilla Reading Charlene SinclairChapter 6: The Church, the City, and Its Mission in the 21st Century: A View from the Margins Elieser ValentinChapter 7: Conclusion: A Praxis of Integral Liberation in a (Post) Colonial World A Critical and Compelling Conversation David Traverzo...

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• Authors: Cruz, Samuel Cruz, Samuel (EDT)/ Savastano Cruz
• Assisted by: Samuel Cruz (Editor), Cruz Samuel (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2012
• EAN: 9780739176757
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-7675-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; RELIGION / Christian Ministry / General, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Pastoral Resources, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Christianity, Religion & politics, Religion and Politics, Urban communities, Religious social and pastoral thought and activity, Christian ministry & pastoral activity, Religious ministry and clergy, Christian social thought & activity, Urban communities / city life