Religion as Conceptual Scaffolding for Architecture

Title
Religion as Conceptual Scaffolding for Architecture
Publication Date
2020
Author(s)
Srivastava, Amit
Scriver, Peter
Nash, Joshua
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8312-5711
Email: jnash7@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jnash7
Editor
Editor(s): Paul Babie and Rick Sarre
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Springer
Place of publication
Singapore
Edition
1
DOI
10.1007/978-981-15-2489-9_15
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/53008
Abstract

Religion and Architecture have a long and intimately intertwined relationship in virtually all cultural histories. Through a wide-ranging discussion centring on India and its global diaspora, this chapter considers some of the many ways in which religion continues to be invested in architecture in the world today, and vice versa, broadening and deepening understanding of how religion is literally 'placed' in contemporary life. Architecture, we conclude, sustains at least a part of the project that religion pursued more dominantly and directly, with the aid of architecture, in other times; it constructs and articulates space, both physical and social, as a medium in which individuals and collectives may engage and cohere, and through which the self and its relationship to greater wholes or entities may be defined and realised.

Link
Citation
Religion Matters: The Contemporary Relevance of Religion, p. 245-261
ISBN
9789811524899
9789811524882
9789811524912
Start page
245
End page
261

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