scholarly journals Architecture, Religion, and Tuberculosis in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec1

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annmarie Adams ◽  
Mary Anne Poutanen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Medical Therapy ◽  
Art Deco ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Free Treatment ◽  
Site Access ◽  
Saranac Lake ◽  
Mount Sinai ◽  
Role Of Religion

Abstract This paper explores the architecture of the Mount Sinai Sanatorium in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts (Qc) to disentangle the role of religion in the treatment of tuberculosis. In particular, we analyze the design of Mount Sinai, the jewel in the crown of Jewish philanthropy in Montreal, in relation to that of the nearby Laurentian Sanatorium. While Mount Sinai offered free treatment to the poor in a stunning, Art Deco building of 1930, the Protestant hospital had by then served paying patients for more than two decades in a purposefully home-like, Tudor-revival setting. Using architectural historian Bernard Herman's concept of embedded landscapes, we show how the two hospitals differed in terms of their relationship to site, access, and, most importantly, to city, knowledge, and community. Architects Scopes & Feustmann, who designed the Laurentian hospital, operated an office at Saranac Lake, New York, America's premier destination for consumptives. The qualifications of Mount Sinai architects Spence & Goodman, however, derived from their experience with Jewish institutions in Montreal. Following Herman's approach to architecture through movement and context, how did notions of medical therapy and Judaism intersect in the plans of Mount Sinai?

Introduction

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 819-827 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Hitzer ◽  
Joachim Schlör
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
East European ◽  
Jewish Immigrants ◽  
The One ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Religious Landscape

This article introduces a special issue that investigates the place of religion in the spatial and cultural organization of west and east European cities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Discussing different frameworks for a conceptualization of the role of religion within the urban context during the past two hundred years, it argues for adopting a broader perspective that takes into account the multiple and often conflicting processes and practices of religious modernization. Thus, it places particular emphasis on scrutinizing a space in between, that is to say, the area of contact between the outward influence on the spatial development of religious communities on the one hand and the inner workings of such communities on the other hand. Based on an 1880s debate over the way Jewish immigrants changed the religious landscape of New York Jewry as well as on the results of the following contributions, it supports a fresh look at the turn of the century as a period of intensified religious life and visibility within metropolises that contributed to the development of more “modern,” individualized forms of religious sociability and, in the same vein, fostered the emergence of modern urbanity.

The Role of Religion in Liberal Democratic Politics

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Benjamin R. Hertzberg
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Salt Lake ◽  
Salt Lake City ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
Lake City ◽  
Friday Prayer ◽  
Role Of Religion

This chapter introduces the book’s main claims by analyzing three examples where religion inspired political controversy in recent US politics: Amina Wadud’s decision to lead a mixed-gender Friday prayer in New York City in 2005, the protests outside an Islamic Circle of North America fundraiser in Yorba Linda, California in 2011, and Mormons Building Bridges’ inaugural march in the Salt Lake City Pride Parade in 2012. Public discussions of these cases exemplify the dominant approaches American citizens use to evaluate religion’s roles in democratic politics. The chapter contrasts these approaches with the alternative defended in this book: a way-of-life conception of democracy. The way of life-conception implies a framework for evaluating religion in politics that is democratic, liberal, and pluralistic. Approaching religion in politics with this conception avoids prominent concerns about evaluating religion: that extant perspectives flatten and deform religious phenomena.

Religion in Politics

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 1510-1541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekrem Karakoç ◽  
Birol Başkan
Keyword(s):  
Multilevel Analysis ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Mass Education ◽  
Socioeconomic Groups ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Role Of Religion

This study investigates the factors that affect variations in secular attitudes toward politics. The literature suggests that modernization may weaken traditional bonds with religious adherence and the state can assume an important role in this endeavor through mass education, industrialization, and other factors. However, this explanation is incomplete in light of the resurgence of religious movements. This study argues that economic inequality increases the positive evaluation of the role of religion in politics through its effect on religiosity and participation in religious organizations. Employing a multilevel analysis on 40 countries, this study demonstrates that inequality decreases attitudes toward support for two dimensions of public secularization: the secularization of public office holders and the influence of religious leaders in politics. Simultaneously, the effect of modernization on these attitudes varies. The results also suggest that although inequality diminishes secular attitudes of all socioeconomic groups, its effect is nonlinear, with a greater effect on the poor.

Religion in Latin America’s Public Sphere

2021 ◽  
pp. 152-172
Author(s):  
Gustavo S.J. Morello
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Privileged Position ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Role Of Religion

This chapter investigates the role of religion in Latin America’s public sphere. For respondents, religion and politics share the space where power is traded. The privileged position is to challenge the economic order and to generate peaceful relations among the peoples and defend human dignity. Respondents dislike the use of that power to pursue a partisan agenda and to have a privileged voice over other persons. At odds with the laïcité project, respondents welcome religion in the public sphere when it challenges modernity to include the poor, and advocates for human dignity. Religion is cheered as a countercultural force. However, this acceptance of religion’s presence in the public sphere does not mean a resacralization of it. Respondents prefer to keep the differentiation of social functions.

scholarly journals Minjung Theology in Contemporary Korea: Liberation Theology and a Reconsideration of Secularization Theory

Religions ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Kim
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Secularization Theory ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
Repeated Calls ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Relief Efforts

The Sewol Ferry tragedy in April 2014 has drawn a renewed attention to the role of religion in South Korea. Theologians and religiously-motivated NGOs in Korea at the time and thereafter have called for the need for religion, and religious organizations, to become more actively involved with societal needs, especially after disasters, to help alleviate their pain by providing relief aid and counselling. Such calls for the greater involvement of religion in relief efforts have coincided with Pope Francis’ repeated calls for the Catholic Church’s greater involvement in social affairs on behalf of the poor and the underprivileged. This paper contends that these developments in and outside of Korea provide an opportune time to renew discussion on oft-misunderstood liberation theology. This is because the latter’s advocacy of an interpretation of the teachings of Jesus Christ from the perspective of the poor and the marginalized for the purpose of alleviating unjust economic, social, or political conditions is as compelling today as it was some 60 years ago when it first arose. The paper offers a reassessment of the role of religion in light of liberation theology, arguing that religion can make itself more relevant to people’s lives today by engaging more actively with social issues. The paper will pay special attention to liberation theology in the Korean context, namely minjungshinhak or “people’s theology.” The paper also discusses the implications of liberation theology for secularization theory, arguing, among others, that the former refutes the “decline of religion” thesis of the latter, since liberation theology manifests a different role of religion in contemporary society rather than its diminishing significance.

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