Building Faith

A Sociology of Religious Structures
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-19-088344-7
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

The social sciences have mostly ignored the role of physical buildings in shaping the social fabric of communities and groups. Although the emerging field of the sociology of architecture has started to pay attention to physical structures, Brenneman and Miller are the first to combine the light of sociological theory and the empirical method in order to understand the impact of physical structures on religious groups that build, transform, and maintain them. Religious buildings not only reflect the groups that build them or use them; these physical structures actually shape and change those who gather and worship there.

Religious buildings are all around us. From Wall Street to Main Street, from sublime and historic cathedrals to humble converted storefronts, these buildings shape the global religious landscape, “building faith” among those who worship in them while providing a testament to the shape and duration of the faith of those who built them and those who maintain them. Building Faith explores the social impact of religious buildings in places as diverse as a Chicago suburb and a Guatemalan indigenous Mayan village, all the while asking the questions, “How does space shape community?” and “How do communities shape the spaces that speak for them?”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brenneman, Robert

Miller, Brian J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Sakralbauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments

- Prologue

- Chapter 1: Introduction

- Chapter 2: What Religious Buildings Do

- Chapter 3: Ours till Jesus Comes

- Chapter 4: Religious Buildings Need Not Apply

- Chapter 5: Architects, Community, and Transcendence

- Chapter 6: Space Bending When Matter Matters

- Chapter 7: Aging in Place over Eight Decades

- Chapter 8: Conclusion

- Bibliography

- Index

- Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Brian J. Miller is Associate Professor of Sociology at Wheaton College where he studies multiple aspects of suburbs, social media use among emerging adults, and religion and place.