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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 beyond the boundaries of modern subjectivity.

Architecture and anthropology --- Religious architecture --- Architecture and anthropology. --- Religious architecture. --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Architecture --- Spiritual architecture --- Anthropology and architecture --- Anthropology

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The designs of synagogues and churches are acknowledged to be very alike. But the designers' procedure was confidential, and so far standard explanations have been unsatisfactory. A synagogue should express heavenly values with earthly materials. This combination was in fact expressed in numbers, for, as Plato said, they linked heaven and earth. Scripture described both the Jewish Tabernacle and Temple with a wealth of numbers. Proportions based on these numbers were used to design synagogues. Only a few Jewish documents survive, but they reveal a symbolism, which Christians sometimes repe

Synagogue architecture. --- Church architecture. --- Religious architecture. --- Spiritual architecture --- Architecture --- Ecclesiastical architecture --- Rood-lofts --- Christian art and symbolism --- Religious architecture --- Architecture, Gothic --- Church buildings --- Jewish architecture

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This book examines non-Muslim religious sites, structures and spaces in the Islamic world. It reveals a vibrant portrait of life in the religious sites by illustrating how architecture responds to contextual issues and traditions. Sacred Precincts explores urban context; issues of identity; design; construction; transformation and the history of sacred sites and architecture in Europe, the Middle East and Africa from the advent of Islam to the 20th century. It includes case studies on churches and synagogues in Iran, Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco and Malta, and on sacred sites in Nigeria, Mali, and the Gambia. With contributions by Clara Alvarez, Angela Andersen, Karen Britt, Karla Britton, Jorge Manuel Simão Alves Correia, Elvan Cobb, Daniel Coslett, Mohammad Gharipour, Mattia Guidetti, Suna Güven, Esther Kühn, Amy Landau, Ayla Lepine, Theo Maarten van Lint, David Mallia, Erin Maglaque, Susan Miller, A.A. Muhammad-Oumar, Meltem Özkan Altınöz, Jennifer Pruitt, Rafael Sedighpour, Ann Shafer, Jorge Manuel Simão Alves Correia, Ebru Özeke Tökmeci, Steven Thomson, Heghnar Watenpaugh, Alyson Wharton and Ethel S. Wolper.

Religious architecture --- Architecture and society --- Architecture religieuse --- Architecture et société --- Architecture et société --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Spiritual architecture --- Social aspects --- Human factors

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Père de l'archéologie médiévale à Lyon, Jean-François Reynaud a mené avec le succès que l'on sait ses recherches sur le Lyon paléochrétien et médiéval. Puis il a ouvert ses investigations sur la région Rhône-Alpes, en ajoutant à la pratique de l'archéologie sédimentaire, celle, encore balbutiante, de l'archéologie du bâti. Son enseignement a reflété ses activités scientifiques, assurant à l'université Lumière Lyon 2 une riche moisson de maîtrises, DEA et thèses composés dans ces deux domaines. Les travaux que ses collègues, disciples et amis ont réunis dans ce volume de mélanges sont le fruit de l'enseignement et de la formation pratique que Jean-François Reynaud a dispensés au fil de sa carrière. Aussi a-t-il paru souhaitable d'y associer les nouvelles générations – la relève – qui sont les héritières par voie directe. Leurs interventions montreront que le dynamisme initial s'est conservé, la recherche amplifiée et les intérêts diversifiés. Les monographies de site ouvrent le volume. Elles constituent des laboratoires vivants où s'élaborent méthodes et problématiques, où se dessinent de grandes synthèses historiques et où la restauration et la conservation du patrimoine puisent des conseils performants. Dans un second temps, l'organisation de l'espace religieux fait entrer le lecteur dans le domaine délicat des relations entre l'architecture, l'image monumentale, la liturgie et la vie quotidienne au sein de l'église, du quartier canonial ou du monastère. Au fil des siècles, la morphogenèse des lieux et des bâtiments se nourrit de ces données déterminantes. Enfin, est abordée la pertinence de ces approches fondées sur des méthodes renouvelées englobant largement l'histoire de l'art et l'archéologie, de la sculpture et des techniques de construction aux analyses spatiales et à la conservation des sites archéologiques.

Religious architecture --- Architecture, Medieval --- Archaeology, Medieval --- Archaeology and religion --- Christian antiquities --- History --- Antiquities, Christian --- Antiquities, Ecclesiastical --- Archaeology, Christian --- Christian archaeology --- Church antiquities --- Ecclesiastical antiquities --- Monumental theology --- Antiquities --- Byzantine antiquities --- Archaeology --- Religion and archaeology --- Religion --- Antiquities, Medieval --- Medieval antiquities --- Medieval archaeology --- Middle Ages --- Spiritual architecture --- Architecture --- Religious aspects --- époque romane --- espace monastique --- mausolée --- Antiquité --- moine --- espace funéraire --- bénédictin --- collégiale --- abbaye --- prieuré --- église --- tympan

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Founded in 1849, St John's Cathedral is the oldest, neo-gothic cathedral in East Asia and China's oldest surviving, still-operating Anglican church. In its early decades, the cathedral was the center of Hong Kong colonial life. Today, it has drawn in other Hong Kong communities, becoming a truly international church with services in several languages. This first comprehensive history of St John's traces the cathedral's role as a colonial parish church and as a bishop's seat for a diocese stretching across China and beyond. It also discusses St John's significance as a center of modern worship for a growing cosmopolitan community.

Anglican Communion --- Cathedrals --- Church architecture --- Church buildings --- Christian sects --- History. --- St. John's Cathedral (Hong Kong, China) --- Hong Kong (China). --- Hong Kong (China) --- Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (China) --- Xiang gang te bie xing zheng qu (China) --- 香港特別行政區 (China) --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo Hsiang-kang tʻe pieh hsing cheng chʻü --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo Xiang gang te bie xing zheng qu --- 中華人民共和國香港特別行政區 --- HKSAR (China) --- Hsiang-kang tʻe pieh hsing cheng chʻü (China) --- Xianggang (China) --- 香港 (China) --- Xianggang Tebie Xingzhengqu (China) --- Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) --- Hong Kong --- Church history. --- Religious architecture --- Spiritual architecture --- Architecture --- Ecclesiastical architecture --- Rood-lofts --- Christian art and symbolism --- Architecture, Gothic