American Sanctuary: Understanding Sacred SpacesLouis P. Nelson Indiana University Press, 14 mars 2006 - 296 pages 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 impact of globalization on the construction of traditional sacred spaces; the urban practice of Jewish space; nature worship and Central Park in New York; the mezuzah and domestic sacred space; and, finally, the spiritual aspects of African American yard art. |
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... experience too frequently to institu- tionally sanctioned ritual ; few allow for the practical reality that religious mean- ing seeps past both institutional and intellectual constructs . Broad patterns of religious meaning often ...
... experiences , human action constructs sacred spaces . In recent decades , theorists of religious culture have located human ... Experience , Interpretation , Comparison , Jones argues that religious architecture must be subjected to an ...
... experience of places called sacred , this collection seeks to accomplish a number of things . First , we hope to offer historians of American architecture examples of new methods for studying sacred spaces ; while the bibliography ...
... Experience , Interpretation , Comparison , 2 vols . ( Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press , 2000 ) , 1 : 185 . 24. See " Epilogue , " in Gretchen Buggeln , Temples of Grace : The Material Transfor- mation of Connecticut's ...
... experience and emphasize the preached Word . The ma- terial result of these ideas was a relatively simple undecorated space designed for listening , without hierarchically ordered spaces . The rhetoric surrounding these buildings ...
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The Design of Sacred Space in New Yorks Central Park | 29 |
4 The Urban Practice of Jewish Space | 57 |
II Identity | 79 |
Recent African American Yard Shows | 81 |
The Sri Siva Vishnu and Murugan Temples in Metropolitan Washington DC | 95 |
Anglican Constructions of the Sacred | 149 |
American Judaism and Constructions of Domestic Sacred Space | 174 |
Memorial Architecture and the Struggle for Meaning | 195 |
IV Toward a Method | 215 |
A Method for Focusing on Religious Meaning | 220 |
Select Bibliography | 237 |
Contributors | 255 |
Index | 257 |
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