Sanctuaries of the City

Anni Greve, Associate Professor of Sociology at the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark

prelude Positioning; Chapter 1 Sanctuaries of the City, Lessons from Tokyo; Part I Urban Sanctuary-Research; Chapter 2 1 is a slightly reversed version of the essay ‘Civic cohesion and sanctuaries for coming to terms with modernity’, published in Durkheimian Studies, Volume 12, Number 1, November 2006, pp. 68–89(22). In this initial essay, civic cohesion was at centre of the argument. It has now been replaced by ‘an international culture as emergent reality’, for two reasons. First, it is through the work of Daniel that I have become aware of Durkheim’s engagement with cosmopolitan virtues. Unfortunately the concept of civic cohesion connotes the organic city idea of the Chicago school, which is very much located within the framework of national sociologies. But also my empirical field of study – a vibrant East Asian urban society – enforces a displacement of focus beyond the level of the nation state. From this point, the late Durkheim, in his study on religion, offers an important source of inspiration; Chapter 3 Urban Sanctuary-Research; Chapter 4 Sanctuaries of Urban Virtues, a View from Architecture; Part II A Place-Historical Perspective; Chapter 5 Reconsidering Classical Sociology: In Search of an In Between Realm of Urban Society; Chapter 6 Approaching the Orient; Chapter 7 The Jolly Good Market Place; Chapter 8 Sanctuaries for Performing Arts; Chapter 9 The Sacred Sanctuary; Part III Lessons From Tokyo; Chapter 10 Lessons from Tokyo; Postlude Postlude;