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American sanctuary : understanding sacred spaces / edited by Louis P. Nelson.

Contributor(s): Nelson, Louis P
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0253218225 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780253218223 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Sacred space -- United States | United States -- ReligionDDC classification: 203/.5/0973 LOC classification: BL2525 | .A5445 2006Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL2525 .A5445 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903100077

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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