“Not a Church Anymore”: The Deconsecration and Conversion of the Dominican Church in Münster (Westphalia, Germany)
This article studies the ways in which communicative attributions change when a church building, in this case the Dominican Church in Münster (Westphalia, Germany) is converted from a place of religious ritual to a place which exhibits art. The Dominican Church was deconsecrated in November 2017 and...
| Published in: | Material religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
2021
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Material religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dominikanerkirche (Münster)
/ Secularization
/ Richter, Gerhard 1932-
/ Installation (Art)
/ Foucault's pendulum
/ History 2018-2021
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion CE Christian art ZB Sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
Space
B Spatial Turn B Architecture B religion and art B Material Turn B Communication |
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| Summary: | This article studies the ways in which communicative attributions change when a church building, in this case the Dominican Church in Münster (Westphalia, Germany) is converted from a place of religious ritual to a place which exhibits art. The Dominican Church was deconsecrated in November 2017 and, since June 2018, houses an art installation by Gerhard Richter: a Foucault Pendulum. The observation and analysis of this process of deconsecration and conversion demonstrates, first, how the physical built structure is embedded in different kinds of communication (e.g. religion, art, politics, economics). Second, this study focuses on the agency of socio-spatial arrangements which afford specific kinds of communication. In this regard, I introduce the concept of “atmosphere” to analytically grasp the semantic agency of a given architectural setting in its entanglement with social communication. |
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| ISSN: | 1751-8342 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Material religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/17432200.2020.1870856 |