Temples for a Modern God
Religious Architecture in Postwar America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 26 April 2018
- ISBN 9780190872908
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 231x155x20 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 38 b&w halftones 0
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Short description:
After World War II, Americans constructed an unprecedented number of synagogues, churches, cathedrals, chapels, and other structures. This 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.
MoreLong description:
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.
Jay M. Price presents an inspiring history of religious architecture in Northern America ... By arranging this material chronologically, Price narrates religious history in a dense, informative, yet readable way.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Search for a Better Church Building
Chapter 2: The Postwar House of Worship
Chapter 3: Postwar Religious Building: A Negotiated
Chapter 4: Making a Modern Church Still Look Like a Church
Chapter 5: "Let's Stop Building Cathedrals"
Conclusion: An Unappreciated Legacy
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