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Global Prayers
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Jochen Becker, Kathrin Klingan, Stephan Lanz
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Religious communities inscribe themselves into the cityscape not
only socially and politically, but also acoustically and
architecturally. Global Prayers examines the mutual influence of
religion and urbanism, looking at how various forms of faith
manifest themselves in the cities of the world. Photo essays,
interviews, reports, scientific texts, and artistic photo spreads
inquire into the making of urban religion and the production of
religious urbanity. With contributions by Nezar AlSayyad, Filip de
Boeck, Hengameh Golestan, Brian Larkin, Aernout Mik, Werner
Schiffauer, AbdouMaliq Simone, Camilo Jose Vergara, Paola Yacoub.
At the height of the middle ages, there were hundreds of abbeys and
priories throughout England. The ruins of some of those that were
destroyed at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries are
today seen as iconic medieval buildings - such as Fountains Abbey
in Yorkshire, designated a World Heritage site, or Tintern Abbey on
the river Wye, immortalised by Wordsworth. These monasteries -
particularly those of the Benedictine and Cistercian orders - were
not simply powerhouses of prayer, but major local landowners who
improved agriculture, replanned villages and founded new towns. For
this reason, Glyn Coppack's far-ranging study not only looks at the
churches and the immediate monastic buildings, but at the full
range of ancillary buildings.
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