Temples For A Modern God

Author : Jay M. Price
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019992595X
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temples for a Modern God written by Jay M. Price and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, Americans constructed an unprecedented number of synagogues, churches, cathedrals, chapels, and other structures. The book is one of the first major studies 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. Price argues that the resulting structures, as often mocked as loved, were physical embodiments of an important time in American religious history.

Author : Jay M. Price
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199925968
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temples for a Modern God written by Jay M. Price and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temples for a Modern God is one of the first major studies 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. Jay Price tells the story of how a movement consisting of denominational architectural bureaus, freelance consultants, architects, professional and religious organizations, religious building journals, professional conferences, artistic studios, and specialized businesses came to have a profound influence on the nature of sacred space. Debates over architectural style coincided with equally significant changes in worship practice. Meanwhile, suburbanization and the baby boom required a new type of worship facility, one that had to attract members and serve a social role as much as honor the Divine. Price uses religious architecture to explore how Mainline Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism, and other traditions moved beyond their ethnic, regional, and cultural enclaves to create a built environment that was simultaneously intertwined with technology and social change, yet rooted in a fluid and shifting sense of tradition. Price argues that these structures, as often mocked as loved, were physical embodiments of a significant, if underappreciated, era in American religious history.

Author : Joanne Punzo Waghorne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198035578
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diaspora of the Gods written by Joanne Punzo Waghorne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Hindus today are urban middle-class people with religious values similar to those of their professional counterparts in America and Europe. Just as modern professionals continue to build new churches, synagogues, and now mosques, Hindus are erecting temples to their gods wherever their work and their lives take them. Despite the perceived exoticism of Hindu worship, the daily life-style of these avid temple patrons differs little from their suburban neighbors. Joanne Waghorne leads her readers on a journey through this new middle-class Hindu diaspora, focusing on their efforts to build and support places of worship. She seeks to trace the changing religious sensibilities of the middle classes as written on their temples and on the faces of their gods. She offers detailed comparisons of temples in Chennai (formerly Madras), London, and Washington, D.C., and interviews temple priests, devotees, and patrons. In the process, she illuminates the interrelationships between ritual worship and religious edifices, the rise of the modern world economy, and the ascendancy of the great middle class. The result is a comprehensive portrait of Hinduism as lived today by so many both in India and throughout the world. Lavishly illustrated with professional photographs by Dick Waghorne, this book will appeal to art historians as well as urban anthropologists, scholars of religion, and those interested in diaspora, transnationalism, and trends in contemporary religion. It should be especially appealing for course use because it introduces the modern Hinduism practiced by the friends and neighbors of students in the U.S. and Britain.

Author : Michael B. Hundley
Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781589839182
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gods in Dwellings written by Michael B. Hundley and published by Society of Biblical Literature. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book devoted exclusively to temples and perceptions of the divine presences that inhabit them, Michael B. Hundley focuses on the official religions of the ancient Near East and explores the interface between the human and the divine within temple environs. Hundley identifies common ancient Near Eastern temple systems and examines issues that include what temple structures communicate, how temples were understood to function, temple ideology, the installation of divine presence in a temple, the connection between presence and physical representation, and human service to the deity. Drawing on architectural and spatial theory, ritual theory, theories of language, art history, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, and comparative studies, Hundley offers a single interpretive lens through which to view temple worship. Features: A close examination of temples in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Hittite Anatolia, and Syria-Palestine An interdisciplinary treatment of architecture, language, ritual, and art A dual focus on how a deity's divine presence connects to space and art and how human service to the deity maintains the deity's active presence

Author : Wendy Cadge
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226922138
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paging God written by Wendy Cadge and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the modern science of medicine often seems nothing short of miraculous, religion still plays an important role in the past and present of many hospitals. When three-quarters of Americans believe that God can cure people who have been given little or no chance of survival by their doctors, how do today’s technologically sophisticated health care organizations address spirituality and faith? Through a combination of interviews with nurses, doctors, and chaplains across the United States and close observation of their daily routines, Wendy Cadge takes readers inside major academic medical institutions to explore how today’s doctors and hospitals address prayer and other forms of religion and spirituality. From chapels to intensive care units to the morgue, hospital caregivers speak directly in these pages about how religion is part of their daily work in visible and invisible ways. In Paging God: Religion in the Halls of Medicine, Cadge shifts attention away from the ongoing controversy about whether faith and spirituality should play a role in health care and back to the many ways that these powerful forces already function in healthcare today.

Author : Philip Peter Jenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056718112X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Graded Holiness written by Philip Peter Jenson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1992-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging investigation of the priestly cultic texts from Exodus 25 onwards explores the coherence and theology of the priestly writing, utilizing insights from anthropology and recent biblical scholarship. Through a carefully worked out set of laws and institutions, the priestly authors sought to order Israel's life before God in a sustainable and satisfying way. This is a valuable contribution to the growing number of studies concerned to understand and recover this neglected part of the Bible.

Author : Donald W. Parry
Publisher : Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780934893466
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Temple in Time and Eternity written by Donald W. Parry and published by Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jay M. Price
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199980482
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Temples for a Modern God written by Jay M. Price and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Anat Geva
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1648431364
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s–1960s written by Anat Geva and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of World War II, the United States experienced a rapid expansion of church and synagogue construction as part of a larger “religious boom.” The synagogues built in that era illustrate how their designs pushed the envelope in aesthetics and construction. The design of the synagogues departed from traditional concepts, embraced modernism and innovations in building technology, and evolved beyond the formal/rational style of early 1950s modern architecture to more of an expressionistic design. The latter resulted in abstraction of architectural forms and details, and the inclusion of Jewish art in the new synagogues. The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s–1960s introduces an architectural analysis of selected modern American synagogues and reveals how they express American Jewry’s resilience in continuing their physical and spiritual identity, while embracing modernism, American values, and landscape. In addition, the book contributes to the discourse on preserving the recent past (e.g., mid 20th century architecture). While most of the investigations on that topic deal with the “brick & mortar” challenges, this book introduces preservation issues as a function of changes in demographics, in faith rituals, in building codes, and in energy conservation. As an introduction or a reexamination, The Architecture of Modern American Synagogues, 1950s–1960s offers a fresh perspective on an important moment in American Jewish society and culture as reflected in their houses of worship and adds to the literature on modern American sacred architecture. The book may appeal to Jewish congregations, architects, preservationists, scholars, and students in fields of studies such as architectural design, sacred architecture, American modern architecture and building technology, Post WWII religious and Jewish studies, and preservation and conservation.

Author : Deborah O'Donnal
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781477683583
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keepers of the Temple written by Deborah O'Donnal and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever wonder why, in spite of the fact that there are more and more churches being built in America each year, the church and Christianity are making less of an impact within our society? Each church was built for the purpose of bringing glory to God, ministering to people, and spreading the gospel. These are excellent aspirations, so what seems to be the problem? Why are God-seeking outsiders, and even insiders, becoming more and more put off with the church? The purpose of this book is not to reveal the failings of the church, but rather, to reveal how we Christians are failing to be all that we aspire of the church and all that Christ aspires of us. Take an intriguing walk through the Bible's history of the original temple as we explore its past and discover more about God's plans for these modern temples today. Then, examine the blueprint left behind for us of our new covenant temple design: the life of Christ. Following His model can transform us into the type of living temples that continue His aspirations and change the world in a way that the church and religion were never designed to be capable of.