ABSTRACT
By the late 1960s, Los Angeles had become a place in which religious ideas and practices were contested within geographic space, on global and local scales. Specifically, Los Angeles was on its way toward becoming a global city, in terms of its crucial role in trans-Pacific trade, the movement of capital, and the migration of people. In religious terms, Los Angeles was also becoming a site for the transmission of ideas and practices associated with global Christianity, especially in contests over diversity and pluralism. Envisioning Los Angeles as a zone of global religious contest and exchange challenges the traditional binaries between pulpit and pew, or institution and adherent. This chapter demonstrates how the historical experience of Christian churches in Los Angeles in the late 1960s reveals a new religious world that was forged in both the changing neighborhoods of the city and in its distinctive expression of global theological trends.
