Comments on: Scott Lewis: God and Globalization http://www.100eyes.org/2009/08/scott-lewis/ Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:03:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: R. Scott Hanson http://www.100eyes.org/2009/08/scott-lewis/#comment-334 R. Scott Hanson Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:53:09 +0000 http://100eyes.org/diversity/?p=2631#comment-334 The U.S. Census stopped recording data about religion in 1936, but you can get a pretty good sense of the picture with data from the Religious Congregations and Membership Study (RCMS) of the Glenmary Research Center. Although Los Angeles has been reported to be the most ethnically diverse city overall in recent years, the 1990 and 2000 Census show that the borough of Queens in New York City is the most ethnically diverse county in the country. Because of the large amount of immigration since 1965 from East Asia (Japan, China, Korea) and South Asia (India, Pakistan) as well as Latin America, Flushing has become a microcosm of world religions with each community establishing many new places of worship alongside older churches and synagogues. Religious diversity is not unique to Flushing, but nowhere else are so many different places of worship as densely concentrated in such a small urban neighborhood. The book, City of Gods, is not yet out but is expected to be published later in 2010. For more info about the project, see: http://www.pluralism.org/affiliates/shanson/index.php and http://www.america.gov/st/diversity-english/2008/August/20080825143428xlrennef0.4305994.html The U.S. Census stopped recording data about religion in 1936, but you can get a pretty good sense of the picture with data from the Religious Congregations and Membership Study (RCMS) of the Glenmary Research Center. Although Los Angeles has been reported to be the most ethnically diverse city overall in recent years, the 1990 and 2000 Census show that the borough of Queens in New York City is the most ethnically diverse county in the country. Because of the large amount of immigration since 1965 from East Asia (Japan, China, Korea) and South Asia (India, Pakistan) as well as Latin America, Flushing has become a microcosm of world religions with each community establishing many new places of worship alongside older churches and synagogues. Religious diversity is not unique to Flushing, but nowhere else are so many different places of worship as densely concentrated in such a small urban neighborhood.

The book, City of Gods, is not yet out but is expected to be published later in 2010. For more info about the project, see:

http://www.pluralism.org/affiliates/shanson/index.php

and

http://www.america.gov/st/diversity-english/2008/August/20080825143428xlrennef0.4305994.html

]]> By: Luc Novovitch http://www.100eyes.org/2009/08/scott-lewis/#comment-333 Luc Novovitch Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:17:14 +0000 http://100eyes.org/diversity/?p=2631#comment-333 A refreshing take on religions. Is it still a work in progress? A refreshing take on religions. Is it still a work in progress?

]]> By: Scott Lewis http://www.100eyes.org/2009/08/scott-lewis/#comment-332 Scott Lewis Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:33:52 +0000 http://100eyes.org/diversity/?p=2631#comment-332 Thanks for the comment. I'm not talking about New York City as a whole but rather just Flushing. The academic research on this is not mine, but according to religious historians, there is no place that has as many different religious communities in such a concentrated area as Flushing. I'll have the historian whose work forms this assertion respond more fully. Thanks for the comment. I’m not talking about New York City as a whole but rather just Flushing. The academic research on this is not mine, but according to religious historians, there is no place that has as many different religious communities in such a concentrated area as Flushing. I’ll have the historian whose work forms this assertion respond more fully.

]]> By: anon http://www.100eyes.org/2009/08/scott-lewis/#comment-331 anon Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:28:30 +0000 http://100eyes.org/diversity/?p=2631#comment-331 NYC hasn't been the most religiously diverse city in the world for more than a decade. You might want to look at current census data and rethink your wording. Nice photos though...and the positive message behind your work is fantastic! NYC hasn’t been the most religiously diverse city in the world for more than a decade. You might want to look at current census data and rethink your wording.

Nice photos though…and the positive message behind your work is fantastic!

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