In Architecture of the World’s Major Religions: An Essay on Themes, Differences, and Similarities, Thomas Barrie presents and explains religious architecture in ways that challenge predominant presumptions regarding its aesthetic, formal, spatial, and scenographic elements. Two positions frame its narrative: religious architecture is an amalgam of aesthetic, social, political, cultural, economic, and doctrinal elements; and these elements are materialized in often very different ways in the world’s principal religions. Central to the work’s theoretical approaches is the communicative and discursive agency of religious architecture, and the multisensory and ritual spaces it provides to create and deliver content. Subsequently, mythical and scriptural foundations, and symbols of ecclesiastical and political power are of equal interest to formal organizations of thresholds, paths, courts, and centers, and celestial and geometric alignments. Moreover, it is equally concerned with the aesthetic, visual and material cultures and the transcendent realms they were designed to evoke, as it is with the kinesthetic, the dynamic and multisensory experience of place and the tangible experiences of the body’s interactions with architecture.
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In Architecture of the World’s Major Religions: An Essay on Themes, Differences, and Similarities, Thomas Barrie presents religious architecture as an amalgam of aesthetic, social, political, cultural, economic, and doctrinal elements, which are often materialized in different ways in the world’s principal religions.
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Architecture of the World’s Major Religions
An Essay on Themes, Differences, and Similarities
Thomas Barrie
Abstract
Keywords
1 Introduction
2 Approaches, Reconsiderations, and Contextual Themes and Typologies
3 Judaism
4 Christianity
5 Islam
6 Hinduism
7 Taoism
8 Buddhism
9 Coda
Acknowledgements
Cited Works
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Product details
ISBN
9789004441422
Published
2020
Publisher
Brill; Brill
Weight
186 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
155 mm
Thickness
6 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Author