Spirit in the Cities

by Tanner, Kathryn

• ISBN13: 9780800636821
• ISBN10: 0800636821
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Author Biography

Kathryn Tanner is Professor of Theology at the Divinity School, University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	vii
Preface
Kathryn Tanner	ix
1. Taking the Train
A Theological Journey through Contemporary Los Angeles County
Sheila Briggs	1	(19)
To L.A. by Rat!	4	(5)
By Bus to Downtown	9	(4)
Evening Rush Hour	13	(3)
Postscript	16	(4)
2. A Theologian in the Factory
Toward a Theology of Social Transformation in the United States
M. Shawn Copeland	20	(27)
One Land, Two Americas	22	(3)
One City, Three or Four Worlds	25	(5)
The Factory	30	(14)
A Concluding Theology of Social Transformation	44	(3)
3. Tasting the Bitter with the Sweet
The Spiritual Geography of Newark, New Jersey
Linda Mercadante	47	(22)
On Location in Newark	49	(3)
The Bitter	52	(4)
The Sweet	56	(6)
Some Theological Dimensions of Environment	62	(7)
4. Degenerative Utopia in Philadelphia
Toward a Theology of Urban Transcendence
Mark Lewis Taylor	69	(29)
Pilgrims	69	(3)
Marchers	72	(5)
Theology and the City	77	(4)
The American Manufactory in Philadelphia: A Degenerative Utopia	81	(10)
Toward Transcendence in the City	91	(7)
5. La Habana-The City That Inhabits Me
A Multi-Sites Understanding of Location
Ada María Isasi-Díaz	98	(27)
Displaced or "Multi-Sites" Persons	102	(6)
La Habana-The City That Witnessed My Birth	108	(10)
Being a Displaced/Multi-Sites Person	118	(7)
Notes	125