2025 Entries in “Religion & Urbanity Online”
In 2025, there were 16 new entries in the database “Religion and Urbanity Online” so far. They cover the time span from antiquity to modernity, cities as different as Aleppo, Singapore and Sens, and approach religion and urbanity from a range of disciplines, including history, anthropology, literature studies and the history of religions. Enjoy reading!
Rubina Raja: Late Antique Churches in Gerasa, Jordan, as Reflections of Urban Heterarchies
Enrico Piergiacomi: The Stoa as a Microcosm. Did the Painted Porch of Athens Influence Zeno’s Theology?
Teresa Schröder-Stapper: The Written Church: Urban Monumental Inscriptions as a Practice of Space and Time in the Age of the Reformation in North-German Cities
Meera Dass: The Sacred Centres at the Periphery of Besnagar, the Ancient Town of Vidiśā (2nd Century BCE to 5th Century CE)
Daria Pezzoli Olgiati: Utopian and Dystopian Cities at Work: Challenging Imaginations of the City in Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale
Tom Hamilton: Religious Violence and Civic Militia: The Massacre at Sens (1562) and its Aftermath
Supriya Chaudhuri: Liminal Spaces: the River-ghāṭ as Threshold, Boundary, and Urban Palimpsest
Elyse Semerdjian: Coffee, Kayf, and Conversation: The Co-Spatiality of Coffeehouses in Early Modern Ottoman Aleppo
Katja Rakow: Urban Religious Aspirations in Singapore: New Creation Church and the Building of The Star
Jörg Frey: Urbanising the Gospel Tradition
Claudine Moulin: The Rise of Vernacular Grammar in the Context of Urbanity and Religion
Anne Murphy: Heterarchical Power Relations in an Early Modern Punjabi Sufi Literary Work
Austin Collins: Constructing a Monarchical and Religious Connection: Angoulême, the Royal Tour, and the French Wars of Religion
Rubina Raja: Religion and the Urban: Network Evolutions Perspectives as Lenses
Gesine Manuwald: Roman Republican Drama Between ‘Religion’ and ‘Urbanity’
Jörg Rüpke and Emiliano Rubens Urciuoli: Blurring Boundaries: Urban Religion Beyond the City
Beatrice Renzi: Religion at the Crossroads of Rural-Urban Life-Worlds. The Case of Dalits in Contemporary Malwa
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