Böcker i Polis Center Series on Religion and Urban Culture-serien

Describes how religious institutions shape and are shaped by their environments

Describes how religious institutions shape and are shaped by their environments

This study of the religious landscape of Indianapolis -- the summativevolume of the Lilly Endowment's Project on Religion and Urban Culture conducted bythe Polis Center at IUPUI -- aims to understand religion's changing role in publiclife. The book examines the shaping of religious traditions by the changing city. Itsheds light on issues such as social capital and faith-based welfare reform andexplores the countervailing pressures of "decentering" -- the creation ofmultiple (sub)urban centers -- and civil religion's role in binding these centersinto one metropolis.Polis Center Series on Religion and UrbanCulture -- David J. Bodenhamer and Arthur E. Farnsley II, editors