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The Hermeneutics of Sacred Architecture: Experience, Interpretation, Comparison, Volume 1: Monumental Occasions: Reflections on the Eventfulness of ... (Religions of the World (Harvard))
 
 
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The Hermeneutics of Sacred Architecture: Experience, Interpretation, Comparison, Volume 1: Monumental Occasions: Reflections on the Eventfulness of ... (Religions of the World (Harvard)) [Hardcover]

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094545421X 978-0945454212 September 15, 2000

The two volumes of this investigation into how we perceive sacred architecture propose an original interpretation of built environments as ritual-architectural events.

Exploring the world's cultures and religious traditions, Volume One maps out patterned responses to sacred architecture according to the human experience, mechanism, interpretation, and comparison of architecture. Volume Two, 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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A bold, innovative work...far and away the most sophisticated exposition of sacred architecture that I have been fortunate enough to encounter.
--Paul Wheatley, University of Chicago, Emeritus

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A bold, innovative work...far and away the most sophisticated exposition of sacred architecture that I have been fortunate enough to encounter. (Paul Wheatley, University of Chicago, Emeritus ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Center for the Study of World Religions (September 15, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 094545421X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0945454212
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,293,831 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not just about the sacred, March 12, 2006
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This excellent book provides a careful and scholarly account of architecture, ancient and modern, drawing on the hitherto under-deployed insights of the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer on the theme of interpretation. The book fits within a series titled Religions of the World, to which it is no doubt an outstanding contribution. But I wish to alert potential readers to the applicability of the text to architecture in general: how we experience and interpret architecture, even outside of sacred contexts. The book makes ample reference to contemporary architecture, and contemporary theorists and critics, from Venturi to Tschumi, and provides a wealth of commonsense, but rarely celebrated, insights and their consequences.
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