American sanctuary: understanding sacred spaces
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.]
Indiana University Press
c 2006
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| In: | Year: 2006 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Sanctuary
/ Religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Sacred Space United States B United States Religion B Bibliography |
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Table of contents |
| Item Description: | 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. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267) and index. - Formerly CIP |
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| ISBN: | 0253346991 |