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Kadoc Territories of faith
religion, urban planning and demographic change in post-war Europe
In the 1950s and 1960s, thousands of churches were built across Europe in an attempt to keep up with the continent's rapid urbanisation. This book addresses the immense effort related to the planning, financing, and construction of this new religious infrastructure. Going beyond aspects of style and liturgy, and transcending a focus on particular architects or regions, this volume considers church building at the crossroads of pastoral theology, religious sociology, and urban planning. Presenting...
Non-fictie
Engels | PDF, 6,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
E-book
Kadoc Loci sacri
understanding sacred places
Sacred places have long exercised a special fascination. Sacred places are not static entities but reveal a historical dynamic. They are the result of cultural developments and have varied multidimensional levels of significance. They are places where time is, as it were, suspended, and they are points where holy times and holy places meet. Sacred places are places apart. It is this specificity in the context of the Christian religions of the West that Loci Sacri wishes to unveil by bringing together...
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Engels | 284 pagina's (PDF, 7,8 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
E-book
Fred B.P. Ahsmann Order and confusion
the twelfth-century choir of the St. Servatius Church in Maastricht
Non-fictie
Engels | 415 pagina's | Stichting Publicaties Middeleeuwse Kunst, Utrecht | 2017
Gedrukt boek
Caroline Voet Dom Hans van der Laan, Tomelilla
architectural theory in practice
Non-fictie
Engels | 272 pagina's | Van der Laan Stichting, [Leuth] | 2016
Gedrukt boek
The mosque
political, architectural and social transformations
"Innocent houses of worship or bulwarks of fundamentalism? We all have our own ideas about mosques, and many of those ideas go beyond the domain of architecture. In Europe, mosques are a central issue in the debates about the integration of Muslims and the potential dangers of Islam. In recent years, such debates have often edged out serious architectural discussion of European mosques, and the domes and minarets of traditional mosque architecture have come to symbolize this entire field of controversy."...
Non-fictie
Engels | 192 pagina's | Nai Publishers, Rotterdam | 2009
Gedrukt boek
Christian Welzbacher Euro Islam architecture
new mosques in the West
Non-fictie
Engels | 110 pagina's | SUN, Amsterdam | 2008
Gedrukt boek