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This 5-page paper is an analysis and reflectin of the book Spirit in the City, which is edited by theologian Katherine Tanner.
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quasi-architectural, quasi-urbanism, city-planning book on many levels. On the one hand, we have the focus of the actual architecture, infrastructure and layout
of the various cities, not to mention the structures and economies that make up the cities and their population (the combination and visualization, for example of poverty-stricken ghettos, almost groveling
in the presence of gleaming, towering and reaching to the skylines. This type of dichotomy, or opposite, is used frequently throughout the book.)
On the other hand, there is almost the spiritual focus of the book, which is crafted, appropriately enough, by members of a group called the Workgroup on Constructive Christian
Theology, who managed to dig out the religious and spiritual significance of each of the cities they visited (Los Angeles, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Detroit and, Havana, Cuba).
Though the essays differ radically from one another in terms of approach (we go from "La Habana, which is written in the style of an
emotion-filled, personal essay of passion to "A Theologian in a Factory," which is a didactic, almost scientifically-written treatise based on many observations), they all tie together the idea of the
existence of God (more specifically religion) as existence in the urbanism of today. The fact that this does so in as many voices as it does is a testament not
only to the authors who have penned the workings inside the book, but also to the editor who managed to put it all together and to tie it all together.
The interesting aspect to this book is that it is filled with apparent conflicts -- Cubans in Rochester? This would seem a
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