Micro-City: Faith Encounters Super-Diversity in Queens, NY

An on-the-ground study of how faith communities create belonging and build bridges across one of the most diverse urban landscapes in the world

Micro-City follows congregations, clergy, and everyday New Yorkers across twelve Queens neigh­borhoods to show how religious life both shelters difference and connects it in public. Blending theories from urban sociology and the sociology of religion with fieldwork, Richard Cimino and Hans Tokke map a borough where no single group is the majority and...