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Title Religious architecture : anthropological perspectives / edited by Oskar Verkaaik.

Imprint Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2013.

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Description 1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations
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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 Săo 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.
Language En.
Subject Architecture and religion.
Church architecture.
Architecture et religion.
Architecture chrétienne.
churches (buildings)
Architecture.
The arts.
Theory of architecture.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Religious.
ARCHITECTURE -- General.
Architecture and religion
Church architecture
Sakralbau
Architektur
Ethnologie
Indexed Term Religion
Architecture
Added Author Verkaaik, Oskar, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Religious architecture. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013] 9789089645111 (OCoLC)859575468
ISBN 9789048518340 (electronic bk.)
9048518342 (electronic bk.)
9789048518357
9048518350
9789089645111
908964511X
9790000000000
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DEBSZ 421310456
DEBSZ 449446972
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GBVCP 865750971

 
    
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