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

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nelson, Louis P.
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2006], ©2006.
Subjects:
Sacred space > United States.
United States > Religion.
Online Access:
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Physical Description:x, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.