Religious Representation In Place

Religious Representation in Place brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Humanities and Sciences to broaden the understanding of how religious symbol systems and spatial studies interact. The essays consider and examine the relevance of religion in the exploration, experience, and representation of space, a fundamental dimension of culture and human life.

Review: Addressed both to practitioners and scholars, this highly unusual and significant book opens with a theoretical exploration of space as it is interrelated to religion in generating meaning in human life. It then explores examples of meaning's emergence from these reciprocal interactions. Finally, it interrogates these phenomena through interdisciplinary essays from astrophysics, religious studies, architecture, philosophy, urban planning, psychology, art history, and hermeneutics.

Here unity of thought is refracted through multiple perspectives to yield a work of high achievement and lasting value. - George Hoover, FAIA, Architect, Professor Emeritus, Architecture, University of Colorado, USA