{"id":3598,"date":"2023-05-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabrinadittus.de\/stadtgebete-die-neuerfindung-der-religion-in-der-stadt\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T12:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:00:15","slug":"stadtgebete-die-neuerfindung-der-religion-in-der-stadt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabrinadittus.de\/en\/stadtgebete-die-neuerfindung-der-religion-in-der-stadt\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-izq is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" id=\"col-izq\"><div class=\"align wp-block-sub-header-film\">\n    \t\t\t<p class=\"mt-[0.375rem] !mb-0\">The Reinvention of Religion in the City<\/p>\t\n\t\t\n        <div class=\"margen-block-info\">\n            \n            Documentary<br>\n            D\/TR\/NG 2012, 58 Min.\n        <\/div>\n    \n    <div>\n        <div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\"><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stadtgebete. Die Neuerfindung der Religion in der Stadt (Ausschnitt)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/842818816?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gottesdienst im &#8220;Redemption Camp&#8221;, ausserhalb von Lagos\/Nigeria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"align wp-block-data-sheet\">\n    <ul class=\"mb-8 md:mb-14 lg:mb-0\">\n    \n        <li>Written and directed by: Sabrina Dittus<\/li>    \n            <li>Status: Realisiert<\/li>    \n        \n    \n        <li>Camera: Sami Karim<\/li>    \n    \n        <li>Editor: Christopher Kaps<\/li>    \n        \n        <li>Production: Pepperlint Film commissioned by arte<\/li>    \n        \n    \n                        <li>Programming Editor arte: Martin Pieper<\/li>\n                    <li>Score: Andi Otto<\/li>\n            \n  <\/ul>\n\n  \n  <div>\n    <div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\"><\/div>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column col-der is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" id=\"col-der\">\n<p>New religious movements are booming. One reason for this is the worldwide change in religions. Faith and religion are no longer largely the preserve of unsophisticated villagers. On the contrary, being a believer is now trendy, and religion is moving into metropolitan areas and changing urban life. This is happening with all religions across the globe, and these systems of belief are undergoing reinvention in the city. <em>Urban Prayers<\/em> takes a look at the new, urban forms of faith and religion in Berlin, Istanbul and Lagos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berlin was long regarded as the \u201cworld capital of atheism\u201d. Today, free-church Christian congregations celebrate Sunday services in the city\u2019s hippest locations, cinemas, theatres, nightclubs and co-working spaces. Their clientele: academics, artists and media professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the outskirts of Istanbul, a new gated community of Basaksehir sprang up in the 1990s. Today, it is home to more than 60,000 people, traditional religious Muslims who are shielded from the rest of the city and want to combine their religious beliefs with the advantages of a modern, upscale lifestyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not far from Lagos, Nigeria\u2019s largest Pentecostal church is building its own \u201cCity of God\u201d, modelled on the Vatican. At its centre is the \u201cAuditorium\u201d, almost 2 kilometres long and 1 kilometre wide. This is the venue of one of the largest regular church services in the world, with almost a million worshippers. The church has 7,000 congregations in Lagos alone and over 24,000 across Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New religious movements are increasingly intervening in the political, economic and social structures of metropolitan areas. Our film examines the extent to which this is changing the cities, but also the religious movements themselves. Will urban life become more religious and religions more secular? The post-secular city is already a reality. But what exactly does that mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World Premiere: iRep, International Film Festival Lagos, Nigeria, March 2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First broadcast: 20.8.2013, on arte<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honored with the Premio Award Changes at the Religion Today Film Festival, September 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sabrinadittus.de\/en\/imprint\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New religious movements are booming. One reason for this is the worldwide change in religions. Faith and religion are no longer largely the preserve of unsophisticated villagers. On the contrary, being a believer is now trendy, and religion is moving into metropolitan areas and changing urban life. This is happening with all religions across the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sabrinadittus.de\/en\/stadtgebete-die-neuerfindung-der-religion-in-der-stadt\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentary","category-films"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Urban Prayers - Sabrina Dittus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sabrinadittus.de\/en\/stadtgebete-die-neuerfindung-der-religion-in-der-stadt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Urban Prayers - Sabrina Dittus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New religious movements are booming. 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