Religion in Los Angeles (eBook, PDF)

Religious Activism, Innovation, and Diversity in the Global City
Redaktion: Flory, Richard; Winston, Diane

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Why has Los Angeles been a hot spot for religious activism, innovation, and diversity? A center of world religions, Los Angeles is the birthplace of Pentecostalism, the site of the largest Roman Catholic diocese in the U.S., the home of more Buddhists anywhere except for Asia, and home base for myriad transnational, spiritual movements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000364972
• Artikelnr.: 61241832

Autorenporträt

Richard Flory is Senior Director of Research and Evaluation at the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. Diane Winston is the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Section One: Then 1. Rivers of Living Water: Radical Social Behaviors and
Religious Innovations on Azusa Street, 1906-1909. 2. Funding
Fundamentalism: Lyman Stewart, Hard Financing and the Creation of the Bible
Institute of Los Angeles 3. International Guru as Local Swami: Yogananda
and the Religious Culture of Southern California 4. Borderlands Believers:
Migrant Laborers and the Growth of Pentecostalism from Los Angeles 5.
Religion and the Urban Civic Landscape: The Case of the Los Angeles County
Committee for Church and Community 6. A Respectable Militancy: Rev. J.
Raymond Henderson & the Civil Rights Struggle in Los Angeles, 1941-1963 7.
The Pentecost Moment: Los Angeles as Global Christian Space in the
Late-20th Century 8. The "Flying Nun" and the "Painting Nun": Gender,
Conflict, and Representation in 1960s Los Angeles. 9. Theosophy and the
Realization of Southern California's Divine Destiny Section Two: Now 10.
Redeeming the City: Los Angeles in the Social Imagination of an Urban
Social Ministry 11. Expanding Never Again: The Cosmopolitan Parochialism of
Los Angeles Jewish Mobilization on the Genocide in Darfur 12. Justice
Activism and Latino Spiritualities: Los Angeles as a Post-Colonial Border
Space 13. Sustaining Borderlands Traditions in a Latinx Pentecostal Church
14. Aum Shalom: Jews, Gurus and Religious Hybridity in the City of Angels
15. Korean Diaspora Churches in Los Angeles: Place Matters 16. Japanese
Americans and the Birth (and Rebirth) of Buddhism in the City of Angels 17.
The Legacy of Religious Diversity in Southern California.