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Temples for a modern god : religious architecture in postwar America
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Price, Jay M., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church architecture--History--20th century--United States.
- Church architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : ill., port.
- Other Title:
- Temples for a modern god
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- After World War II, Americans constructed an unprecedented number of synagogues, churches, cathedrals, chapels, and other structures. This book provides a study of American religious architecture in the postwar period, and it reveals the diverse and complicated set of issues that emerged just as one of the nation's biggest building booms unfolded.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Ch. 1. The search for a better church building
- Ch. 2. The postwar house of worship
- Ch. 3. Postwar religious building: a negotiated
- Ch. 4. Making a modern church still look like a church
- Ch. 5. Let's stop building cathedrals
- Conclusion: an unappreciated legacy.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2012).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780199980482 (ebook) :
- OCLC:
- 1096534422
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