Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

Nelson, Louis P.

Description

x, 280 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Sacred space > United States
• United States > Religion

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267) and index.

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

Call Number

JFE 06-4632

ISBN

• 0253346991 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0253218225 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005020158

OCLC

61123048

Title

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

Imprint

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267) and index.

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Added Author

Nelson, Louis P.

Research Call Number

JFE 06-4632