{"product_id":"christianity-and-culture-in-the-city-a-postcolonial-approach-paperback","title":"Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSamuel Cruz\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePeter Savastano\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eEdgar Rivera\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach offers an introduction to the broad diversity of contemporary Christianities in a rich, complex, changing, and challenging city context. Cruz focuses upon a variety of changing communities with dynamic and striking cultural experiences, and the volume provides both scholarly and practical insights as to how Christianities in the city relate to and transform city institutions and communities that are undergoing dramatic shifts and invite opportunities for intentional study. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book offers a provocative interdisciplinary examination to shed light upon the ways in which diverse city communities appropriate Christianity to better engage their economic, cultural, political, and religious environment. A post-colonial theoretical framework will help inform how Christianity serves to empower and reinvent fragmented, oppressed, and struggling city populations. The reader is offered various conceptual, theoretical, and pragmatic insights and knowledge for better interpreting, affirming, and engaging diverse Christianities in the city in a postcolonial era. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel Cruz is a sociologist of religion, race, sexuality and gender. Dr. Cruz is assistant professor of Church and Society at Union Theological Seminary City of New York. Dr. Cruz's publications include a book, Masked Africanisms: Puerto Rican Pentecostalism (Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2005) as well as a number of book chapters and journal articles on Latina\/o and global Pentecostalism, urban religion and on the sociology of religion--principal areas of his research and teaching. Dr. Cruz is also Senior Pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51776325026080,"sku":"9781498515856","price":106.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7b20e84b7836bb712bfa275dcc699e2d.webp?v=1780477092","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/christianity-and-culture-in-the-city-a-postcolonial-approach-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}