Faith on the avenue : religion on a city street / Katie Day ; photography by Edd Conboy.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - 9780199860036
- 0199860033
- 0199358427
- 9780199358427
- 9781306114097
- 1306114098
- City churches
- Faith
- Religious gatherings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Case studies
- Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Case studies
- Cultural pluralism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Cultural pluralism -- Religious aspects
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Religious life and customs
- Foi
- Assemblées religieuses -- Pennsylvanie -- Philadelphie
- Villes -- Aspect religieux -- Islam -- Études de cas
- Diversité culturelle -- Pennsylvanie -- Philadelphie
- Diversité culturelle -- Aspect religieux
- faith
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Islam
- City churches
- Cultural pluralism
- Cultural pluralism -- Religious aspects
- Faith
- Religious gatherings
- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- 306.60974811 23
- BV637 .D39 2014eb
- online - EBSCO
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Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online | online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Online access | Not for loan (Accesso limitato) | Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users | (ebsco)660113 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).
TMapping faith on the avenue -- Constructing the sacred in space and place -- Seeking the welfare of the city: assessing the impact of urban congregations -- Pound for pound: the social impact of small churches -- Pentecostal Latinas: engendering selves in storefront congregations -- Muslims on the block: navigating the urban ecology -- Urban flux: mobility, change, and communities of faith.
In a revelatory study of Philadelphia's Germantown Avenue, home to a diverse array of more than 90 congregations, Katie Day explores the formative and multifaceted role of religious congregations within an urban environment.