Monumental occasions : reflections on the eventfulness of religious architecture
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Monumental occasions : reflections on the eventfulness of religious architecture
(Religions of the world, . The hermeneutics of sacred architecture : experience,
Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, c2000
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Bibliography: p. [291]-307
Includes index
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The two volumes of this investigation into how we perceive sacred architecture propose an original intepretation of built environments as ritual-architectural events. Exploring the world's cultures and religious traditions, Volume 1 maps out patterned responses to sacred architecture according to the human experience, mechanism, interpretation and comparison of architecture. Volume 2, an exercise in comparative morphology, offers a comprehensive framework of ritual-architectural priorities by looking at architecture as orientation, as commemoration and as ritual context.
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