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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “gretchen buggeln”
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  • The Suburban Church

    Modernism and Community in Postwar America

    by Gretchen Buggeln ...
    Series series Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture
    After World War II, America’s religious denominations spent billions on church architecture as they spread into the suburbs. In this richly illustrated history of midcentury modern churches in the Midwest, Gretchen Buggeln shows how architects and suburban congregations joined forces to work out a vision of how modernist churches might help reinvigorate Protestant worship and community. The result ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Religion in Museums

    Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Gretchen Buggeln, Crispin Paine, S. Brent Plate ...
    Bringing together scholars and practitioners from North America, Europe, Russia, and Australia, this pioneering volume provides a global survey of how museums address religion and charts a course for future research and interpretation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and institutions explore the work of museums from many perspectives, including cultural studies, religious studies, and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Interpreting Religion at Museums and Historic Sites

    Edited by Gretchen Buggeln, Barbara Franco ...
    Series series Interpreting History
    Interpreting Religion at Museums and Historic Sitesencourages readers to consider the history of religion as integral to American culture and provides a practical guide for any museum to include interpretation of religious traditions in its programs and exhibits. Combining both theoretical essays and practical case studies from a wide cross section of the field, the book explores how museums are ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Anyone who examines the Zen arts is immediately struck by how modern they seem. The ceramics of 16th-century Zen artists could be interchanged with the rugged pots of our own contemporary crafts movement; ancient calligraphies suggest the monochromes of Franz Kline or Willem de Kooning; the apparent nonsense and illogic of Zen parables (and No theater and Haiku poetry) established the limitations ... Read more

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  • Sicily: Catania & the Southeast Footprint Focus Guide: Includes Taormina & Mount Etna

    by Mary-Ann Gallagher ...
    Series series Footprint Focus
    Jam-packed with information on this fascinating destination, Footprintfocus Sicily: Catania and Southeast will guide you around all the best sights and provide you with up-to-date recommendations on where to eat, sleep and party. The guide features: • Essentials section with tips on getting there and around • Up-to-date recommendations of great places to stay and eat • Highlights map of the region ... Read more

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  • Religious Difference in a Secular Age

    A Minority Report

    by Saba Mahmood ...
    How secular governance in the Middle East is making life worse—not better—for religious minoritiesThe plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious ... Read more

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  • House at Royal Oak

    Starting Over & Rebuilding a Life One Room at a Time

    by Carol Eron Rizzoli ...
    An unforgettable story about a couple who follow their dream of converting a run-down country house into a working bed and breakfast, and what they learn along the way from an old home, a close-knit community, and a parade of extraordinary guests.One spring, Carol Eron Rizzoli and her husband Hugo bought a dilapidated farmhouse in the tiny village of Royal Oak, Maryland, on the edge of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Race, Religion, and the Continuing American Dilemma

    by C. Eric Lincoln ...
    A classic work on religion and the racial problems of modern america -now brought up to date.Since the early days of the Republic, Americans' exuberant, unchastened idealism, their commitment to the notion of a perfect society in the New World, has clashed with the reality of ugly American society, and religious groups have all too often accommodated themselves to these injustices.In Race, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Rome

    by Amanda Claridge ...
    Series series Oxford Archaeological Guides
    The city of Rome is the largest archaeological site in the world, capital and showcase of the Roman Empire and the centre of Christian Europe. This guide provides: · Coverage of all the important sites in the city from 800 BC to AD 600 and the start of the early middle ages, drawing on the latest discoveries and the best of recent scholarship · Over 220 high-quality maps, site plans, diagrams and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Politics of Secularism in International Relations

    by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Conflicts involving religion have returned to the forefront of international relations. And yet political scientists and policymakers have continued to assume that religion has long been privatized in the West. This secularist assumption ignores the contestation surrounding the category of the "secular" in international politics. The Politics of Secularism in International Relations shows why this ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Iran Travel Guide - Sightseeing, Hotel, Restaurant & Shopping Highlights (Illustrated)

    by Rebecca Kaye ...
    The Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the largest countries in the Middle East. Known as Persia to the world until 1935, Iran (the official name between 1935 and 1979, and the name by which the country is now called) is actually the 18th largest country in the world. Iraq is located to the west and the northern boundaries are shared with Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The western boundaries are ... Read more

    $4.08 USD

  • Building Yanhuitlan

    Art, Politics, and Religion in the Mixteca Alta since 1500

    by Alessia Frassani ...
    Through years of fieldwork in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, art historian and archaeologist Alessia Frassani formulated a compelling question: How did Mesoamerican society maintain its distinctive cultural heritage despite colonization by the Spanish? In Building Yanhuitlan, she focuses on an imposing structure—a sixteenth-century Dominican monastery complex in the village of Yanhuitlan.For ... Read more

    $25.19 USD