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SUMMARY:Religious Architecture in the City: Transatlantic Perspectives
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DESCRIPTION:Event canceled \n\nDeutsches Haus at NYU and University Allian
 ce Ruhr present a discussion among Courtney Bender (Columbia University)\,
  Martin Radermacher (Ruhr-University Bochum)\, and Avinoam Shalem (Columbi
 a University) on the evolution of religious architecture in New York City 
 and the Ruhr area and the transformations in society that drive these chan
 ges in the urban landscape.\n\nThe architectural presence of places of wor
 ship such as synagogues\, churches\, or mosques is often taken for granted
  due to its material persistence. Nonetheless\, in contested urban space r
 eligious communities often need to make and claim space\, keeping up with 
 transformations of their urban environments and societal contexts. While i
 n cities such as New York religious plurality seems self-evident\, the pos
 ition of built religion is not at all straightforward. Real estate decisio
 ns\, for example\, always carry theological and religious valences. In Ger
 many’s metropolitan Ruhr area\, massive demographic and societal transfo
 rmations have affected religious diversity and the ways in which religious
  actors interact with each other in the urban space. But the current lands
 cape of built religion on both sides of the Atlantic is not merely a resul
 t of demographic and real estate developments. The construction of new mos
 ques\, a reorientation in synagogue architecture\, the sale\, demolition o
 r reuse of former places of worship have all contributed to a changed visi
 bility of religious architecture and its place in contemporary urban areas
 . Religious studies and art history experts from New York and the Ruhr are
 a will take a comparative look at the material forms of religious traditio
 ns in contemporary urban space and discuss the social and cultural context
  from which these religious architectures have evolved.\n\nMore informatio
 n here.
LOCATION:Deutsches Haus at NYU | 42 Washington Mews | New York\, NY 10003
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/religious-architecture-city-transatlant
 ic-perspect/
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