**** Apologies if you receive this enquiry more than once ****

 

I would be very grateful if people could reflect upon, provide insights and recommend literature to help me along with my research.

 

The focus is postsecular cities (or more accurately postsecular urban spaces given the exchange on the Comurb mailbase a few months ago) at the theoretical and empirical intersection between (1) political economy of neoliberal urbanism and (2) state-civil society relations and faith-based political and ethical praxis in cities.

 

There is currently little or no systematic engagement with this emergent topic in the geographical literature, despite a postsecular turn in sociology via the work of critical theorists such as Habermas, liberal communitarians like Taylor and critical commentators such as McLennan, among others.

 

While a limited number of contributions to the literature recently  (e.g. TESG; Urban Studies) reflect a tide of change within urban scholarship a  great deal more needs to be done to capture, sharpen and deepen the conceptual and analytical implications of these inquiries for urban theory in general and postsecular urbanism (theory, empirics, politics) in particular.

 

Your insights, reflections and literature suggestions would be warmly received.

 

Justin Beaumont

Department of Planning, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS

Tel: 0031 (0)50 363 6910/ 3895

Fax: 0031 (0)50 363 3901

Skype: justin9712