1. IntroductionPart 1: After the Secular City: Religion and Urban Effervescence2. Religion in the Street: A popular neighborhood in Mexico City, Hugo José Suárez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)3. Staging Green Spirituality in the Parks of Lausanne and Geneva: A Spatial Approach to Urban Ecological Festivals, Irene Becci (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland) and Salomé Okoekpen4. Constructing a Religioscape: The Case of Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, Nadezda Rychkova (Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia)5. Festivals of Religions and Religious Festivals: Heritigized Heterotopias, Alberta Giorgi (University of Bergamo, Italy) and Mariachiara Giorda (Roma Tre University, Italy)Part 2: The Politics of Religion in Urban Spaces: Power and Symbolism in the City6. A Bridge Too Far: Yoga, Spirituality, and Contested Space in the Pacific Northwest, Paul Bramadat (University of Victoria, Canada)7. “It’s the first Sukkah since the Inquisition!”: Jewish Celebrations in Public Spaces in Barcelona, Julia Martínez-Ariño (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)8. Spatial Discourses of Sanctity as Means of Struggle and Empowerment in a Contested City, Nimrod Luz (Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel)9. Decoding Strategic Secularism in Madrid: Religion as Ambience in Three Scenarios, Monica Cornejo-Valle (Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain)Part 3: Public Religious Rituals, Urban Transcendence and Embodied Spirituality10. Urbi et Orbi: Pope Benedict’s Visit to Berlin and the Emplacement of Communicative Events, Hubert Knoblauch (TU Berlin, Germany)11. Turning Spirituality into a Public Event: the Popularization of Collective Meditations and Mindfulness Marches in the Urban Space, Mar Griera (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Anna Clot-Garrell (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)12. God’s Warriors: Embodying Evangelical Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Rio de Janeiro, Raphael Schapira (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland)13. Feeling Sufis: An essay on Intimate Religion in Berlin, Omar Kasmani (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)14. Epilogue, Sophie Watson (The Open University, UK)BibliographyIndex

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