community
Overview page. Subjects: Social Sciences — Arts and Humanities.
Many sociological and anthropological definitions exist, but most tend to privilege some combination of small-scale, relative boundedness, strong affective ties, traditionalism, and...
Religion in the American City, 1900–2000
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History
P ublished online September 2016 .
Article. Subjects: US Cultural History; Urban History; History of Religion. 10567 words.
Home to more than half the U.S. population by 1920, cities played an important role in the development of American religion throughout the 20th century. At the same time, the beliefs and...
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Espiritismo and Urban Planning in Cuba: Envisioning Regeneration in Havana and Oriente after 1898
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History
P ublished online September 2016 .
Article. Subjects: Caribbean History; History of Religion; Urban History. 11916 words.
Espiritismo refers to the practice of communicating with the spirits of the dead by means of especially disposed and trained persons known as mediums. Linked in origin to the...
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