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1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Religious Architecture: Anthropological Perspectives / Oskar Verkaaik -- Stability, Continuity, Place: An English Benedictine Monastery as a Case Study in Counterfactual Architecture / Richard D.G. Irvine -- The Biggest Mosque in Europe! : A Symmetrical Anthropology of Islamic Architecture in Rotterdam / Pooyan Tamimi Arab -- Golden Storm: The Ecstasy of the Igreja de São Francisco, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil / Mattijs van de Port -- Works of Penance: New Churches in Post-Soviet Russia / Tobias Köllner -- Divining Siddhivinayak: The Temple and the City / Markha Valenta -- The Djenné Mosque: World Heritage and Social Renewal in a West African Town / Trevor H.J. Marchand -- The New Morabitun Mosque of Granada and the Sensational Practices of Al Andaluz / Oskar Verkaaik -- The Israelite Temple of Florence / Ivan Kalmar -- The Mosque in Britain Finding its Place / Shahed Saleem -- About the Authors -- Index. |
| Note |
© Oskar Verkaaik / Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2013 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Borrowing from a range of theories on spacemaking and material religion, and with contributions from anthropologists working in the United Kingdom, Mali, Brazil, Spain, and Italy, this fascinating and comprehensive study develops an anthropological perspective on modern religious architecture including mosques, churches, and synagogues. Religious Architecture examines how religious buildings take their place in opposition to their secular surroundings and, in so doing, function not only as community centers in urban daily life, but also as evocations of the sublime that help believers to move. |
| Note |
© Oskar Verkaaik / Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2013. |
| Subject |
Architecture and religion.
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Church architecture.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Religious.
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ARCHITECTURE -- General.
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Architecture.
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The arts.
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Theory of architecture.
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Architecture and religion. (OCoLC)fst00813572
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Church architecture. (OCoLC)fst00860550
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Sakralbau.
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Architektur.
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Ethnologie.
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| Added Author |
Verkaaik, Oskar, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Religious architecture. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013] 9789089645111 (OCoLC)859575468 |
| ISBN |
9789048518340 (electronic bk.) |
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9048518342 (electronic bk.) |
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9789048518357 |
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9048518350 |
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9789089645111 |
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908964511X |
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