Images of Place, Secularity and Gentrification: On Urban Religious Belonging in an Inner City Neighbourhood in Oslo

Through extensive fieldwork conducted in an inner city neighbourhood Oslo, Norway, the authors found that a variation of actors and settings evoked different religious secular images place. In what ways is urban experience shaping or challenging sense spatial belonging, why discourse dominating scene? order to obtain such place context recently established area based initiative, we interviewed representatives for communities localized neighbourhoods Tøyen Grønland. Here encountered no religiously infused language despite sizeable presence. sciences religion, view separation between as social fact norm modern societies dominates. We argue there privatization religion (Casanova 1994) within larger renewal gentrification. Simultaneously find reverse Taylor’s (2007) proposal emptying space: namely filling up spaces, label ‘urban belonging’. This article provides further empirically knowledge into connection secularism sphere, difference belief representations discourses, well methodological approach studying these connections fractures.