Religion & Urbanity in “Epoch” Magazine
Over the past months, members of the “Religion and Urbanity” group have published articles in the online history magazine “Epoch”. The articles as well as an introduction by Susanne Rau and Klara-Maeve O’Reilly can now be accessed via a dedicated page.
From the introduction:
Urban life and religious life evolve together, and have done so since people have gathered in what we call cities. We call this co-evolution the reciprocity of their formation. Urban life and religious life relate to each other (because of this relation, prepositions hugely help us to explain what our research is all about, as you will see). So, how does living in a city change how you do your religion? Does your religion change how you organise your everyday life in the city you live in? These are the two questions at the heart of a collaborative research group at Erfurt University, in Germany.
Until now, these two questions have usually been approached from the angle of religion in cities – with cities acting as the colourful, even messy, background to religious history or from the angle of religion and the city where the focus often rests on sprawling mega-cities whose diversity expresses itself in various beliefs being practised side by side. Against this background, we propose to take two mental steps in order to re-consider how to approach urban and religious life.

The articles are:
Susanne Rau: The Multiple Beginnings of a City: Calicut (Kozhikode)
Mateusz Fafinski: How Cities Disappeared in Late Antiquity: The Life and Death of Justiniana Prima
Constanze Schaller: A Glimpse into the Custom of Donating Books in early modern Erfurt
Klara-Maeve O’Reilly: The 1924 Box Makers Strike in Dublin
Sara Keller: Champaner, a Water-Intelligent City in India
Mirjam Wien: Vampires and the Borders of Europe
Aileen Becker: Sacred Water in Early Christian Rome
Martin Christ: The Fear of Being Buried Alive in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Enjoy reading!
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urbrel (March 3, 2025). Religion & Urbanity in “Epoch” Magazine. Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations. Retrieved March 20, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/13ev8