Religious Architecture: Anthropological Perspectives

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2013

Religious Architecture

Anthropological Perspectives

Edited by: Oskar Verkaaik

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048518340

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Oskar Verkaaik is associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam and the author of Migrants and Militants: “Fun” and Urban Violence in Pakistan.

Reviews

“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.”

— Jojada Verrips, University of Amsterdam

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Religious Architecture. Anthropological Perspectives Oskar Verkaaik Open Access Download PDF	7
Stability, Continuity, Place. An English Benedictine Monastery as a Case Study in Counterfactual Architecture Richard D.G. Irvine Open Access Download PDF	25
The Biggest Mosque in Europe! A Symmetrical Anthropology of Islamic Architecture in Rotterdam Pooyan Tamimi Arab Open Access Download PDF	47
Golden Storm. The Ecstasy of the Igreja de São Francisco in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil Mattijs van de Port Open Access Download PDF	63
Works of Penance. New Churches in Post-Soviet Russia Tobias Köllner Open Access Download PDF	83
Divining Siddhivinayak. The Temple and the City Markha Valenta Open Access Download PDF	99
The Djenné Mosque. World Heritage and Social Renewal in a West African Town Trevor H.J. Marchand Open Access Download PDF	117
The New Morabitun Mosque of Granada and the Sensational Practices of Al Andaluz Oskar Verkaaik Open Access Download PDF	149
The Israelite Temple of Florence Ivan Kalmar Open Access Download PDF	171
The Mosque in Britain Finding its Place Shahed Saleem Open Access Download PDF	185
About the Authors Open Access Download PDF	205
Index Open Access Download PDF	209

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 213

eBook

Published: September 26, 2013
ISBN: 9789048518340