"Gods of this City: Religion and the American Urban Landscape (Religion in North America)" - Josh Osteen

Robert Orsi uses this book to compile essays and writings from different authors that delve into topics that discuss real-life examples of religion in urban areas. Orsi brings together sources that span different religions that have taken their places in other cultures with different people and shows how their rituals and manners have altered with challenges that have arisen with landscape changes and the urban setting. In the first couple chapters, there is an emphasis on a change with location that tweaks religions such as Haitian Voodoo and Cuban Catholicism. This book is a very case-centered collection of real situations and examinations of religions that have developed with scenery changes. This book is not a highly informational source other than a skim of the surface on several religious practices and their beliefs and rituals. A theme that is heavy in this book is the immigration side to adaptive changes that were forced upon the subjects.