Part of the Negotiating Religion series, this workshop will investigate the spatial incorporation of religious communities in the city both in the form of the material urban environment, for example in the presence of religious buildings and other faith spaces, and in everyday urban cultures, practices and politics.
Questions which will be explored in this workshop include: How are new religious buildings incorporated into contemporary urban spaces? What continuities are there with the emergence of religious architecture in earlier times? What significance do religious buildings and other markers in the urban landscape have for different religious communities? How are existing and new forms of religious spatial practice (processions, festivals, pilgrimage) incorporated into the urban environment? What kinds of transformations of urban space are produced by religious spatial practices? What role do faith groups play in the making and remaking of urban spaces?
PROGRAMME:
| 10.30 |
Registration |
| 11am-1pm: | Session 1: Negotiating Religion in Urban Space: New Faith Spaces |
| Speakers | Professor John Eade (Roehampton University/Migration Research Unit, UCL) Religious Place-Making and Migration across a Globalising City: Responding to Mobility in London |
| Ali Mangera (Mangera Yvars Architectural Practice) Designing faith spaces in the city: The Salaam Centre, North Harrow |
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| Dr Richard Gale (School of City and Regional Planning, Department of Cardiff) ‘…make your dwellings into places of worship’: mosque development and the politics of place and residence in the UK’ |
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| Dr Andrew Crompton (School of Architecture, University of Liverpool) Multi-faith spaces: a universal interface to God |
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| Chair | Dr Claire Dwyer (UCL Geography and Migration Research Unit) |
| 1-2pm |
Lunch |
| 2-3.45pm | Session 2: Negotiating Faith in Urban Space: Continuity and Practice |
| Speakers | Dr Nazneen Ahmed (Compass, University of Oxford) Making Muslim Space on the London Docks: Lascar Seafarers’ Faith Practices, 1880-1945 |
| Liz Hingley (Leverhulme Artist in Residence, Migration Research Unit, UCL) Under gods: stories from Soho Road, Birmingham |
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| Dr Claire Dwyer (Department of Geography and Migration Research Unit, UCL) Faith and Suburbia: secularisation, modernity and the changing geographies of religion in London’s suburbs |
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| Dr David Garbin (CRONEM, University of Surrey) Diaspora, suburban Christianity and the American ‘New South’: African migrant churches in Atlanta |
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| Chair | Professor John Eade (Roehampton/UCL) |
| 3.45-4pm | Break |
| 4-6pm | Panel: Negotiating Faith in Urban Space: Politics and Praxis |
| Panelists | Dr John Zavos, (South Asian Studies, University of Manchester) Small Acts, Big Society: Sewa and Hindu (nationalist) identity in the UK |
| Dr Luke Bretherton (Faith and Public Policy Forum, Kings College London) Community Organising, Religious Pluralism and Democratic Citizenship |
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| David Garbin (CRONEM, University of Surrey) and Enrico Masi (University of Bologna, Italy) Soldiers of God in the Global City (Video Documentary) |
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| 6pm | Reception. All welcome |
Convener:
Dr Claire Dwyer (UCL Geography)
For further information on the individual sessions or the series as a whole, please contact: Dr François Guesnet or Dr Uta Staiger.
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