The aim of this paper is to provide the historical research on both religion and the city with a serviceable analytical distinction between ‘urbanisation’ and ‘citification’ as two sets of socio-spatial phenomena related to the role of religion in city-spaces. Inspired by modern social and political theory, the notion of ‘citification’ has been crafted with the purpose to be tested on early Christ religion in order to better foreground its character of an ‘urban religion’. The paper ends by suggesting how the concept of ‘citification’ can be profitably applied to the historical study of other ancient constellations of religiously infused spatial practices in interaction with the urban space.
E. Urciuoli (2020). Citification of Religion: A Proposal for the Historical Study of Urban Religion, -, 1-32 [10.1515/urbrel.12124596].
Citification of Religion: A Proposal for the Historical Study of Urban Religion
E. Urciuoli
2020
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to provide the historical research on both religion and the city with a serviceable analytical distinction between ‘urbanisation’ and ‘citification’ as two sets of socio-spatial phenomena related to the role of religion in city-spaces. Inspired by modern social and political theory, the notion of ‘citification’ has been crafted with the purpose to be tested on early Christ religion in order to better foreground its character of an ‘urban religion’. The paper ends by suggesting how the concept of ‘citification’ can be profitably applied to the historical study of other ancient constellations of religiously infused spatial practices in interaction with the urban space.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
