Rescripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis

Rescripting Religion in the City explores the role of faith and religious practices as strategies for understanding and negotiating the migratory experience. Leading international scholars draw on case studies of urban settings in the global north and south. Presenting a nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the ’modern metropolis’ this book makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history, the sociology of religion and migration studies, as well as historical and urban geography and practical theology.

Jane Garnett is a Fellow and Tutor in History at Wadham College, Oxford and Alana Harris works in the History Department at King’s College London where she teaches modern British history, specialising in social and cultural history and the history of London. They have previously successfully collaborated as co-authors/editors (with M. Grimley, W. Whyte and S. Williams) on Redefining Christian Britain: Post-1945 Perspectives (2007).