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American sanctuary [electronic resource] : understanding sacred spaces / edited by Louis P. Nelson.

Contributor(s): Nelson, Louis P | ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006Description: x, 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Sacred space -- United States | United States -- ReligionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 203/.5/0973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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 yark 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 (p. [251]-267) and index.

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 yark 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

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.