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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457759403321

Titolo

American sanctuary [[electronic resource] ] : understanding sacred spaces / / edited by Louis P. Nelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-253-11196-X

1-4337-0844-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NelsonLouis P

Disciplina

203/.5/0973

Soggetti

Sacred space - United States

Electronic books.

United States Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

New England orthodoxy and the language of the sacred / Gretchen Buggeln -- God in Gotham: the design of sacred space in New York's Central Park / Paula A. Mohr -- The urban practice of Jewish space / Jennifer Cousineau -- Salvage/Salvation: recent African American yark shows / John Beardsley -- Spaces for a new public presence: the Sri Siva Vishnu and Murugan temples in Metropolitan Washington, D.C. / Joanne Punzo Waghorne -- Getting beyond Gothic: challenges for contemporary Catholic church architecture / Paula M. Kane -- Word, shape, and image: Anglican constructions of the sacred / Louis P. Nelson -- The Mezuzah: American Judaism and constructions of domestic sacred space / Erika Meitner -- Mythic pieties of permanence: memorial architecture and the struggle for meaning / Jeffrey F. Meyer -- Reading megachurches: investigating the religious and cultural work of church architecture / Jeanne Halgren Kilde

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines a diverse set of spaces and buildings seen through                the lens of popular practice and belief to shed light on the complexities of sacred                space in America. Contributors explore how dedication sermons document shifting                understandings of the meetinghouse in early 19th-century Connecticut; the changes in                evangelical church architecture during the



same century and what that tells us about                evangelical religious life; the impact of contemporary issues on Catholic church                architecture; the im