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Pages: 467
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Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In this book, a distinguished team of authors explores the way space, place, architecture, and ritual interact to construct sacred experience in the historical
Sacred Architecture
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Caroline Humphrey
Categories: Architecture and religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: HarperThorsons

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This is a vivid, richly illustrated exploration of the symbolism and significance of sacred architectural forms from spires and minarets to pyramids and temples
Sacred Power, Sacred Space
Language: en
Pages: 249
Authors: Jeanne Halgren Kilde
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-07-21 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Jeanne Halgren Kilde's survey of church architecture is unlike any other. Her main concern is not the buildings themselves, but rather the dynamic character of
The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture
Language: en
Pages: 285
Authors: Thomas Barrie
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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The sacred place was, and still is, an intermediate zone created in the belief that it has the ability to co-join the religious aspirants to their gods. An esse
Constructing the Ineffable
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Karla Britton
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Throughout the history of the built environment there has been no more significant endeavor than the construction of houses of worship, which were once the foca