Sacred power, sacred space : an introduction to Christian architecture and worship /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- A method for thinking about power dynamics in Christian space
- Early Christian meeting space in the Roman empire
- Imperial power in Constantinian and Byzantine churches
- From abbey to great church, fortress to heavenly city
- Transformations of the Renaissance and Reformation
- Formalism and non- or antiformalism in worship and architecture
- Historicism, modernism, and space
- Concluding observations.