Religious Architecture: Anthropological Perspectives

by Oskar Verkaaik

Overview

Borrowing from a range of theories on spacemaking and material religion, and with contributions from anthropologists working in the United Kingdom, Mali, Brazil, Spain, and Italy, this fascinating and comprehensive study develops an anthropological perspective on modern religious architecture including mosques, churches, and synagogues. Religious Architecture examines how religious buildings take their place in opposition to their secular surroundings and, in so doing, function not only as community centers in urban daily life, but also as evocations of the sublime that help believers to move beyond the boundaries of modern subjectivity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040787663
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/01/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	230
File size:	25 MB
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About the Author

Oskar Verkaaik is associate professor affiliated with the Department of Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

Religious Architecture, Stability, Continuity, Place, The Biggest Mosque in Europe!, Golden Storm, Works of Penance, Divining Siddhivinayak, The Djenné Mosque, The New Morabitun Mosque of Granada and the Sensational Practices of Al Andaluz, The Israelite Temple of Florence, The Mosque in Britain Finding its Place, About the Authors, Index

Editorial Reviews

"Compelling and thought provoking collection of essays by anthropologists on religious architecture that shed new theoretical light on the relation between the material and immaterial in the realm of religion in our so-called secular world" — Jojada Verrips, em. professor of cultural anthropology, University of Amsterdam.

From the Publisher

A compelling and thought-provoking collection of essays that sheds new theoretical light on the relation between the material and immaterial in the realm of religion in our so-called secular world.

University of Amsterdam - Jojada Verrips