| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 108 pages) |
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Brill research perspectives in religion and the art |
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Brill research perspectives.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Architecture of the World's Major Religions: An Essay on Themes, Differences, and Similarities -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Models and Methods of Interpretation -- 1.2 Definitions of Terms and Scope of Inquiry -- 2 Approaches, Reconsiderations, and Contextual Themes and Typologies -- 2.1 Approaches to Religious Architecture -- 2.2 Reconsidering Religious Architecture -- 2.3 Contextual Themes and Typologies -- 3 Judaism -- 3.1 Frameworks of Judaism -- 3.2 Architectural Themes -- 3.3 The Tabernacle and Temples of Jerusalem |
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3.4 The Early Synagogue and Ritual Observances -- 3.5 Later Synagogues -- 4 Christianity -- 4.1 Frameworks of Christianity -- 4.2 Architectural Themes -- 4.3 The Early Church -- 4.4 The Western Church -- 5 Islam -- 5.1 Frameworks of Islam -- 5.2 Architectural Themes -- 5.3 Columned Halls -- 5.4 Domed Mosques -- 6 Hinduism -- 6.1 Frameworks of Hinduism -- 6.2 Architectural Themes -- 6.3 Early Temples -- 6.4 The Dravida and Nagara -- 6.5 Formal, Organizational, and Symbolic Elements of the Mature Hindu Temple -- 7 Taoism -- 7.1 Frameworks of Taoism -- 7.2 Architectural Themes |
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7.3 Wudangshan, Hubei Province -- 8 Buddhism -- 8.1 Frameworks of Buddhism -- 8.2 Architectural Themes -- 8.3 Early Buddhist Architecture of Stupa and Cave -- 8.4 China: Stupa and Pagoda -- 8.5 Chinese Buddhist Sacred Mountains -- 8.6 The Monastic Architecture of Korea and Japan -- 9 Coda -- Acknowledgements -- Cited Works |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 06, 2020) |
| Subject |
Religious architecture.
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religious buildings.
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Religious architecture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9004441433 |
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9789004441439 |
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