Religion in Los Angeles : Religious Activism, Innovation, and Diversity in the Global City (Hardcover)

Section One: Then 1. Rivers of Living Water: Radical Social Behaviors and Religious Innovations on Azusa Street, 1906-1909. Caroline Bunnell Harris 2. Funding Fundamentalism: Lyman Stewart, Hard Financing and the Creation of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles Christina Copland 3. International Guru as Local Swami: Yogananda and the Religious Culture of Southern California David J. Neumann 4. Borderlands Believers: Migrant Laborers and the Growth of Pentecostalism from Los Angeles Lloyd Barba 5. Religion and the Urban Civic Landscape: The Case of the Los Angeles County Committee for Church and Community Mark Wild 6. A Respectable Militancy: Rev. J. Raymond Henderson & the Civil Rights Struggle in Los Angeles, 1941-1963 David J. Neumann 7. The Pentecost Moment: Los Angeles as Global Christian Space in the Late-20th Century Sean Dempsey 8. The "Flying Nun" and the "Painting Nun": Gender, Conflict, and Representation in 1960s Los Angeles. Diane Winston 9. Theosophy and the Realization of Southern California’s Divine Destiny Grace Converse Section Two: Now 10. Redeeming the City: Los Angeles in the Social Imagination of an Urban Social Ministry Richard Flory and Bradly Nabors 11. Expanding Never Again: The Cosmopolitan Parochialism of Los Angeles Jewish Mobilization on the Genocide in Darfur Brie Loskota, Jennifer Thompson and Tobin Belzer 12. Justice Activism and Latino Spiritualities: Los Angeles as a Post-Colonial Border Space Helene Slessarev-Jamir 13. Sustaining Borderlands Traditions in a Latinx Pentecostal Church Jonathan Calvillo 14. Aum Shalom: Jews, Gurus and Religious Hybridity in the City of Angels Amanda J. Lucia and Michael Scott Alexander 15. Korean Diaspora Churches in Los Angeles: Place Matters Sung Gun Kim 16. Japanese Americans and the Birth (and Rebirth) of Buddhism in the City of Angels Jean-Paul R. deGuzman 17. The Legacy of Religious Diversity in Southern California. Bruce Phillips