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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: American sanctuary. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2006 (DLC) 2005020158 (OCoLC)61123048 |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Louis P Nelson |
ISBN: | 9780253111968 025311196X 1433708442 9781433708442 |
OCLC Number: | 145748209 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (x, 280 pages) : illustrations |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | 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 yard 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. |
Responsibility: | edited by Louis P. Nelson. |
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Abstract:
Examines a diverse set of spaces and buildings seen through the lens of practice and belief to shed light on the complexities of sacred space in America. This book explores how dedication sermons document shifting understandings of the meetinghouse in early 19th-century Connecticut; the urban practice of Jewish space; and more.
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