Territories of Faith (eBook, PDF)

Religion, Urban Planning and Demographic Change in Post-War Europe
Redaktion: Sven Sterken, Sterken; Eva Weyns, Weyns

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Produktbeschreibung

A novel and interdisciplinary perspective on post-warchurch buildingIn the 1950s and1960s, thousands of churches were built across Europe in an attempt to keep upwith the continent's rapid urbanisation. This book addresses the immense effortrelated to the planning, financing, and construction of this new religiousinfrastructure. Going beyond aspects of style and liturgy, and transcending afocus on particular architects or regions, this volume considers church building at the crossroads ofpastoral theology, religious sociology, and urban planning. Presenting the richpalette of strategies and methods deployed by congregations, dioceses,government bodies, and private patrons in their attempt to secure a religiouspresence in the rapidly modernising world, Territories of Faith offers abroad view of the practice of religion and its material expression in the fast-evolving(sub)urban landscapes of post-war Europe.Contributors: Joao Alves da Cunha (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa),Alba Arboix-Alio (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya / Universitat deBarcelona), Umberto Bordoni (Scuola Beato Angelico), Angela Connelly(Manchester School of Architecture), Maria Antonietta Crippa (Politecnico diMilano), Kees Doevendans (TU Eindhoven / KU Leuven), Davide Fusari (Politecnicodi Milano), Jesus Garcia Herrero (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid), JudiLoach (Cardiff University; Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhone-Alpes), JoaoLuis Marques (Universidade do Porto), Melanie Meynier-Philip (Ecole NationaleSuperieure d Architecture de Lyon), Ellen Rowley (University College Dublin), SofiaAnja Singler (Cambridge University), Sven Sterken (KU Leuven), Marina Wesner(TU Berlin), Eva Weyns (KU Leuven), Ferdinando Zanzottera (Politecnico diMilano)This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Universitaire Pers Leuven
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789461664235
• Artikelnr.: 72472468