Believing in the City: Urban Cultures, Religion and (Im)Materiality - special issue of 'Culture and Religion An Interdisciplinary Journal'

The papers in this special issue of Culture and Religion were presented during the 2-day workshop ‘Religion, Culture and Materiality’ organised under the auspices of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Centre for Research on Sociocultural Change Urban Experiments strand and held at the Open University, UK, on 27 and 28 April 2011. Participants of this workshop discussed the materiality of religion in different spatial and temporal contexts. How does materiality impact the ways in which the sacred is experienced and understood? What is the ‘shape’ that religious materiality (and immateriality) takes across various time-spaces? Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, what is the place of religion in contemporary urban societies?