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Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a crossroads. This study attempts to understand the sacred architecture of monasteries as a process of the tangible and symbolic organisation of space and time for religious communities. Despite the weight of seemingly immutable monastic tradition, architecture has contributed to developing specific religious identities and played a fundamental part in the reformation of different forms of religious life according to the changing needs of society. The cloister is the focal point of this book because it is both architecture, a physically built reality, and a metaphor for the religious life that takes place within it. Life Inside the Cloister also addresses the afterlife and heritagisation of monastic architecture in secularised Western society.

Cloisters (Architecture) --- Monastic and religious life --- Monastic life --- Spirituality (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) --- Monasticism and religious orders --- Spiritual life --- Vows --- Architecture --- Courtyards --- Christianity --- 235.4 --- Kloosters--geschiedenis --- Kloosterleven--geschiedenis --- C3 --- religieuze kunst --- architectuur --- kloosters --- KADOC - Documentatie- en Onderzoekscentrum voor Religie, Cultuur en Samenleving (1977-) --- Academic collection --- 726.7 --- Religieuze architectuur ; kloosters ; abdijen --- Kunst en cultuur --- Religieuze architectuur ; abdijen, kloosters --- Religious architecture --- monasteries [built complexes] --- religieuze architectuur --- geschiedenis

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In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete. But how did an institution like the Catholic Church, so often seen as steeped in inflexible traditions, come to welcome this modernist trend? Catherine R. Osborne's innovative new book finds the answer: the alignment between postwar advancements in technology and design and evolutionary thought within the burgeoning American Catholic community. A new, visibly contemporary approach to design, church leaders thought, could lead to the rebirth of the church community of the future. As Osborne explains, the engineering breakthroughs that made modernist churches feasible themselves raised questions that were, for many Catholics, fundamentally theological. Couldn't technological improvements engender worship spaces that better reflected God's presence in the contemporary world? Detailing the social, architectural, and theological movements that made modern churches possible, American Catholics and the Churches of Tomorrow breaks important new ground in the history of American Catholicism, and also presents new lines of thought for scholars attracted to modern architectural and urban history.

Catholic church buildings --- Modern movement (Architecture) --- Modernism (Christian theology) --- Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- 23/28 --- 726 --- 726.5 --- Modernism --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Modernist-fundamentalist controversy --- Modernism (Architecture) --- Modernist architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- International style (Architecture) --- Churches, Catholic --- Church buildings --- History --- Catholic Church --- Christelijke godsdienst --- Christelijke religie --- Christendom --- Religieuze architectuur --- Kerkelijke bouwkunst --- Kerken (architectuur) --- Christian church history --- Religious architecture --- Christianity --- Modern Movement --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States --- religieuze architectuur --- United States of America --- American Catholicism. --- Catholic Church. --- Church Architecture. --- Ecclesiology. --- Eschatology. --- Liturgical Studies. --- Modern Architecture. --- Religion and Science. --- Second Vatican Council. --- Vatican II.

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After World War II, Americans constructed an unprecedented number of synagogues, churches, cathedrals, chapels, and other structures. This book provides a study of American religious architecture in the postwar period, and it reveals the diverse and complicated set of issues that emerged just as one of the nation's biggest building booms unfolded.

Church architecture --- 72.036 --- 726 --- Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- 726 <73> --- Ecclesiastical architecture --- Rood-lofts --- Christian art and symbolism --- Religious architecture --- Architecture, Gothic --- Church buildings --- History --- 20ste eeuw (architectuur) --- Twintigste eeuw (architectuur) --- Religieuze architectuur --- Religieuze bouwkunst. Kerkelijke bouwkunst. Sacrale architectuur--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA

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This book explores the display and reception of nineteenth-century stained glass in a secular exhibition context. International in scope, the book focuses on the global development of stained glass in this period as showcased at, and influenced by, these exhibitions. It recognises those who made and exhibited stained glass and demonstrates the long-lasting impact of the classification and modes of display at these events. A number of exhibits are illustrated in colour and are analysed in relation to stylistic developments, techniques and material innovations, as well as the broader iconographies of nationalism and imperialism in the nineteenth century.

Glass painting and staining. --- Glass painting and staining --- Glass, Stained --- Painted glass --- Stained glass --- Decoration and ornament --- Glass, Ornamental --- Glass art --- Glass craft --- Painting --- Glass, Colored --- Stained glass industry --- Exhibitions --- History --- Museology --- Glass --- Aesthetics of art --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- art history --- religious art --- stained glass [visual works] --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain --- United States --- religieuze architectuur --- United States of America --- Stained glass, international exhibitions, art, industry, culture, imperialism, nationalism, international networks, consumption, global art history.

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The dynamic relationship between art and theology continues to fascinate and to challenge, especially when theology addresses art in all of its variety. In 'Architecture and Theology: The Art of Place' , author Murray Rae turns to the spatial arts, especially architecture, to investigate how the art forms engaged in the construction of our built environment relate to Christian faith. Rae does not offer a theology of the spatial arts, but instead engages in a sustained theological conversation with the spatial arts. Because the spatial arts are public,visual, and communal, they wield an immense but easily overlooked influence. 'Architecture and Theology' overcomes this inattention by offering new ways of thinking about the theological importance of space and place in the experience of God, the relation between freedom and law in Christian life, the transformation involved in God's promised new creation, biblical anticipation of the heavenly city, divine presence and absence, the architecture of repentance and remorse, and the relation between space and time. In doing so, Rae finds an ample place for theology amidst the architectural arts.

Christian theology --- Religious architecture --- architecture [discipline] --- theology --- Christianity --- Architecture and philosophy --- Christianity and the arts --- 291.35 --- 2:7 --- Philosophy and architecture --- Philosophy --- 2:7 Godsdienst. Theologie-:-Kunst. Ruimtelijke ordening. Architectuur. Sport en spel --- Godsdienst. Theologie-:-Kunst. Ruimtelijke ordening. Architectuur. Sport en spel --- 291.35 Heilige plaatsen: altaren; tempels; pagoden; kerken; moskeeën; bossen; grotten; heilige landen en steden --- Heilige plaatsen: altaren; tempels; pagoden; kerken; moskeeën; bossen; grotten; heilige landen en steden --- Arts and Christianity --- Arts --- religieuze architectuur --- Christianity and the arts. --- Architecture and philosophy.