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"""A fascinating study on how organized religion and infrastructures are implicated in remaking material well-being and hope, in not always positive ways, in African cities. A real opening in urban studies."" --Ash Amin, Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK ""This edited collection is an invaluable addition to the ongoing understanding of the relationship between religion, religious organizations and social transformation. It will be of interest to students and scholars in a variety of disciplines, including urban sociology, urban management, anthropology, social geography and religious studies/spatial theology."" --Asonzeh Ukah, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa ""An excellent examination of the operations of religious urbanization. The collection carefully reveals how faith-based organizations combine the moral and infrastructural, with important consequences for urban development, city institutions, markets, districts, and urban imaginaries."" --Colin McFarlane, Professor of Geography, Durham University, UK"

A fascinating study on how organized religion and infrastructures are implicated in remaking material well-being and hope, in not always positive ways, in African cities. A real opening in urban studies. * Ash Amin, Professor of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK * This edited collection is an invaluable addition to the ongoing understanding of the relationship between religion, religious organizations and social transformation. It will be of interest to students and scholars in a variety of disciplines, including urban sociology, urban management, anthropology, social geography and religious studies/spatial theology. * Asonzeh Ukah, Professor of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa * An excellent examination of the operations of religious urbanization. The collection carefully reveals how faith-based organizations combine the moral and infrastructural, with important consequences for urban development, city institutions, markets, districts, and urban imaginaries. * Colin McFarlane, Professor of Geography, Durham University, UK *

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David Garbin is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. Gareth Millington is Reader in Sociology at the University of York, UK. Simon Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor in Religious Studies at the University of Toronto, Canada.

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