American sanctuary understanding sacred spaces / [electronic resource] : edited by Louis P. Nelson. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006. - x, 280 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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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Sacred space--United States.


United States--Religion.


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