Religion and the City (EM)

Subject associations
HUM 339 / REL 398 / URB 339
Term
Spring 2023
Instructors
Babak Manouchehrifar
Registrar description

This course introduces students to the socio-historical and political processes through which religion is represented, contested, and managed in the built environment. The course pays particular attention to the way that claims of religion implicate questions of diversity, difference, and justice in contemporary cities. Students will study the conceptual and historical debates on the role and place of religion in the public sphere and analyze empirical cases of how spatial decisions regulate or enable expressions of religious difference in urban settings.