Ecologies of Faith in New York City, livre ebook

Urban congregations confront rapid social change

Ecologies of Faith in New York City examines patterns of interreligious cooperation and conflict in New York City. It explores how representative congregations in this religiously diverse city interact with their surroundings by competing for members, seeking out niches, or cooperating via coalitions and neighborhood organizations. Based on in-depth research in New York's ethnically mixed and rapidly changing neighborhoods, the essays in the volume describe how religious institutions shape and are shaped by their environments, what new roles they have assumed, and how they relate to other religious groups in the community.

Acknowledgments
Foreword/Nancy T. Ammerman
Introduction: The Ecology of Religious Institutions in New York City/Richard Cimino and Nadia Mian, with Weishan Huang
I. Religious Institutions and Gentrification in the Religious Ecology
1. Disneyfication and Religion in Times Square/Hans E. Tokke
2. Filling Niches and Pews in Williamsburg and Greenpoint—The Religious Ecology of Gentrification/Richard Cimino
3. Korean American Churches and the Negotiation of Space in Flushing/Keun-Joo Christine Pae
II. Immigration, Religion and Neighborhood Change
4. Diversity and Competition: Politics and Conflict in New Immigrant Communities/Weishan Huang
5. The "Brazilianization" of New York City: Brazilian Immigrants and Evangelical Churches in a Pluralized Urban Landscape/Donizete Rodrigues
6. Building and Expanding Communities: African Immigrant Congregations and the Challenge of Diversity/Moses Biney
III. Entrepreneurial Innovation and Religious Institutions
7. The ABC's of Faith and Commerce in the Lower East Side/Sheila P. Johnson
8. Navigating Property Development through a Framework of Religious Ecology: The Case of Trinity Lutheran Church/Nadia A. Mian
9. Hinduism at Work in Queens/Matthew Weiner
Contributors
Index