Sacred Circles, Public Squares: The Multicentering of American Religion

This study of the religious landscape of Indianapolis -- the summative
volume of the Lilly Endowment's Project on Religion and Urban Culture conducted by
the Polis Center at IUPUI -- aims to understand religion's changing role in public
life. The book examines the shaping of religious traditions by the changing city. It
sheds light on issues such as social capital and faith-based welfare reform and
explores the countervailing pressures of "decentering" -- the creation of
multiple (sub)urban centers -- and civil religion's role in binding these centers
into one metropolis.

Polis Center Series on Religion and Urban
Culture -- David J. Bodenhamer and Arthur E. Farnsley II, editors