Modern Architecture and Religious Communities, 1850-1970: Building the Kingdom

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Synopsis
Social groups formed around shared religious beliefs encountered significant change and challenges between the 1860s and the 1970s.　This book　is the first collection of essays of its kind to take a broad, thematically-driven case study approach to this genre of architecture and its associated visual culture and communal experience. Examples range from Nuns’ holy spaces celebrating the life of St Theresa of Lisieux to utopian American desert communities and their reliance on the philosophy of Teilhard de Chardin. Modern religious architecture converses with a broad spectrum of social, anthropological, cultural and theological discourses and the authors engage with them rigorously and innovatively. As such, new readings of sacred spaces offer new angles and perspectives on some of the dominant narratives of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries: empire, urban expansion, pluralism and modernity. In a post-traditional landscape, religious architecture suggests expansive ways of exploring themes including nostalgia and revivalism; engineering and technological innovation; prayer and spiritual experimentation; and the beauty of holiness for a brave new world. Shaped by the tensions and anxieties of the modern era and powerfully expressed in the space and material culture of faith, the architecture presented here creates a set of new turning points in the history of the built environment.
Copyright:
2018

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
236 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781351043700
Related ISBNs:
9781351043724, 9781138487116, 9780367591557
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Kate Jordan, Ayla Lepine
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Religion and Spirituality
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Kate Jordan
Edited by:
Ayla Lepine

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