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SUMMARY:CERES Research Colloquium
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DESCRIPTION:Veronika Eufinger\n\n"Spaces of urban religion as public space
 s? A comparative study of cases from Germany and the United States"\n\n\nA
 bstract\n\nThe study of urban religion often focusses the appropriation of
  public space as its central characteristic (Orsi\, 1999\; Rüpke\, 2020).
  Accordingly\, the overlapping of the production of religious and secular 
 spaces\, as well as the processing of resulting conflicts are often the fo
 cus of research. Contrary to this\, in cases of new urban centralizations\
 , in which new centers and associated peripheries are formed (Lefebvre\, 2
 014)\, religious actors appear as producers and partly as owners of public
  space: In the context of new development areas and decentralized shopping
  centers in Germany the Christian majority churches are strongly involved 
 in the production of public space through private investors or neighborhoo
 d managers. In the United States congregations even become the owners of s
 o-called Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS) for example through property
  associations.\nBased on three cases from Oberhausen\, Hamburg and New Yor
 k City\, I explore the extent to which these public spaces supported by re
 ligious congregations are spaces of public religion in the sense of its de
 privatization (Casanova\, 2008)\, if those churches act as parts of the ci
 vil society and if the phenomenon is to be considered as a sign of the pos
 t-secular city (Knott\, 2010\; Beaumont & Baker\, 2011) or as a sacralizat
 ion (Krech\, 2011) of public space. This needs to be taken in the light of
  a change in urban spatial logic\, which is characterized in urban develop
 ment research as the Americanization of the European city\, also referred 
 to as the market orientation of public planning (Jessen\, 2002). Last but 
 not least\, the problem needs to be addressed if religious communities can
  produce public spaces at all if the criteria of the incomplete integratio
 n of the individual in the public sphere (Siebel\, 2007) and the commonali
 ty of the public (Arendt\, 1960) are compared to the comprehensive religio
 us integration of the human being (Gabriel\, 1999).
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/ceres-research-colloquium-12062023/
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