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  • Religious Pluralism and the City

    Inquiries into Postsecular Urbanism

    Modifié par Helmuth Berking, Silke Steets, Jochen Schwenk ...
    Collections series Bloomsbury Studies in Religion, Space and Place
    Religious Pluralism and the City challenges the notion that the city is a secular place, and calls for an analysis of how religion and the city are intertwined. It is the first book to analyze the explanatory value of a number of typologies already in use around this topic – from "holy city" to "secular city", from "fundamentalist" to "postsecular city". By intertwining the city and religion, ... En savoir plus

    $50.99 CAD

  • Stadium Worlds

    Football, Space and the Built Environment

    Modifié par Sybille Frank, Silke Steets ...
    Collections series Architext
    Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. Four thematic sections bring together an international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives with particular focus on the stadium.Examples from architectural design, media studies and archaeology are used while studying advertising, economics, migration, fandom, local ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

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    The Return of Religion After Mao

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    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today—its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China’s future.The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world’s great spiritual revivals. Following a century of violent anti-religious campaigns, China is now filled with new temples, ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Wrestling with Moses

    How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

    par Anthony Flint ...
    The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. But consummate power broker Robert Moses, the father of many of New York’s most monumental ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $12.99 CAD Maintenant $10.99 CAD

  • Mahatma Gandhi

    His Life and Ideas

    par Charles F. Andrews ...
    An intimate biography of one of the greatest social andreligious reformers of the modern world."Gandhi's work in nonviolence was comprehensive and not simply confined to politics or human rights. It was about building positive relationships based on respect, understanding, acceptance, and appreciation. It was about eliminating exploitation of all kinds and creating harmony."—from the Foreword by ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want

    A Book About Noise

    par Garret Keizer ...
    Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. It has been a byproduct of human striving since ancient times even as it has become a significant cause of disease in our own. At heart, noise ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Religion in China

    Survival and Revival under Communist Rule

    par Fenggang Yang ...
    Religion in China survived the most radical suppression in human history--a total ban of any religion during and after the Cultural Revolution. All churches, temples, and mosques were closed down, converted for secular uses, or turned to museums for the purpose of atheist education. Over the last three decades, however, religion has survived and thrived even as China remains under Communist rule. ... En savoir plus

    $34.39 CAD

  • From Boom to Bubble

    How Finance Built the New Chicago

    par Rachel Weber ...
    An unprecedented historical, sociological, and geographic look at how property markets change and fail—and how that affects cities.In From Boom to Bubble, Rachel Weber debunks the idea that booms occur only when cities are growing and innovating. Instead, she argues, even in cities experiencing employment and population decline, developers rush to erect new office towers and apartment buildings ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Communities and Networks

    Using Social Network Analysis to Rethink Urban and Community Studies

    par Katherine Giuffre ...
    In Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring questions such as: How do communities shape our lives and identities? How do they foster either conformity or innovation? What holds communities together and what happens when they fragment or fall apart? How is ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • If You Meet the Buddha on the Road

    Buddhism, Politics, and Violence

    par Michael Jerryson ...
    It is said that the famous ninth century Chinese Buddhist monk Linji Yixuan told his disciples, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." The deliberately confounding statement is meant to shock people out of complacent ways of thinking. But beyond the purposeful jolt from complacency there is another intention. This axiom suggests that, for liberation, one should seek the Buddha nature that ... En savoir plus

    $60.79 CAD

  • Creative Margins

    Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs

    par Alison L. Bain ...
    Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural workers in suburban place-formation and dismantles mischaracterizations of suburbs as cultural wastelands.Creative Margins interweaves stories of the challenges and opportunities presented by the creation ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Planetary Gentrification

    par Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin, Ernesto López-Morales ...
    Collections series Urban Futures
    This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and London with that in Shanghai, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro? This book argues that gentrification is one of the most ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD