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Modern Architecture and Religious Communities, 1850-1970 - Building the Kingdom (Hardcover)
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Modern Architecture and Religious Communities, 1850-1970 - Building the Kingdom (Hardcover)
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Social groups formed around shared religious beliefs encountered
significant change and challenges between the 1860s and the 1970s.
This book is the first collection of essays of its kind to take a
broad, thematically-driven case study approach to this genre of
architecture and its associated visual culture and communal
experience. Examples range from Nuns' holy spaces celebrating the
life of St Theresa of Lisieux to utopian American desert
communities and their reliance on the philosophy of Teilhard de
Chardin. Modern religious architecture converses with a broad
spectrum of social, anthropological, cultural and theological
discourses and the authors engage with them rigorously and
innovatively. As such, new readings of sacred spaces offer new
angles and perspectives on some of the dominant narratives of the
nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries: empire, urban
expansion, pluralism and modernity. In a post-traditional
landscape, religious architecture suggests expansive ways of
exploring themes including nostalgia and revivalism; engineering
and technological innovation; prayer and spiritual experimentation;
and the beauty of holiness for a brave new world. Shaped by the
tensions and anxieties of the modern era and powerfully expressed
in the space and material culture of faith, the architecture
presented here creates a set of new turning points in the history
of the built environment.
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