When God comes to town : religious traditions in urban contexts / edited by Rik Pinxten & Lisa Dikomitis.

Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number is expected to have gone up to some seventy per cent. This poses problems for traditional religions that are all rooted in rural, small-scale societies. The authors in this volume wonder what the pos...

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Contributors: Pinxten, Rik, Dikomitis, Lisa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Series:Culture and politics/politics and culture ; v. 4.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central