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<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD>Preface</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>ix</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD>Acknowledgments</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>xi</TD><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Introduction</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>1</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(16)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Louis P. Nelson</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>I. Inscription</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>New England Orthodoxy and the Language of the Sacred</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>17</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(20)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Gretchen Buggeln</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>God in Gotham: The Design of Sacred Space in New York's Central Park</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>37</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(28)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Paula A. Mohr</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>The Urban Practice of Jewish Space</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>65</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(24)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Jennifer Cousineau</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>II. Identity</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Salvage/Salvation: Recent African American Yard Shows</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>89</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(14)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>John Beardsley</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Spaces for a New Public Presence: The Sri Siva Vishnu and Murugan Temples in Metropolitan Washington, D.C.</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>103</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(25)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Joanne Punzo Waghorne</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Getting beyond Gothic: Challenges for Contemporary Catholic Church Architecture</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>128</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(29)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Paula M. Kane</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>III. Instability</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Word, Shape, and Image: Anglican Constructions of the Sacred</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>157</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(25)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Louis P. Nelson</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>The Mezuzah: American Judaism and Constructions of Domestic Sacred Space</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>182</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(21)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Erika Meitner</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Mythic Pieties of Permanence: Memorial Architecture and the Struggle for Meaning</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>203</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(22)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Jeffrey F. Meyer</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=20></TD><TD>IV. Toward a Method</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD>Reading Megachurches: Investigating the Religious and Cultural Work of Church Architecture</TD></TR></TABLE></TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>225</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(26)</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0><TR><TD WIDTH=100></TD><TD>Jeanne Halgren Kilde</TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD>Select Bibliography</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>251</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(18)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Contributors</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>269</TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>(2)</TD></TR><TR><TD>Index</TD><TD WIDTH=40></TD><TD VALIGN=TOP>271</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE>

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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 impac

American sanctuary : understanding sacred spaces