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Sacred Architecture

Will The New Pope Help To Improve Catholic Church Architecture?

Thom Nickels | Posted 04.30.2013 | Religion
Read More: Second Vatican Council, Catholic Church, Religion in America, Sacred Architecture, New Pope, Church Architecture, Catholic Church Architecture, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion News
Thom Nickels

No matter where I travel, whether it's to Louisville, Ky., Vienna, a remote island in the Caribbean, Paris, Montreal or Quebec City -- I see revamped Catholic sacred spaces and cathedrals stripped bare.

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PHOTOS: Breathtaking Sacred Architecture In The 21st Century

Lukas Feireiss | Posted 12.13.2011 | Religion
Read More: Video, Religious-Books, Closer to God, Religious Spaces, Sacred Spaces, Architecture, Sacred Architecture, Eco-Architecture, Religious Architecture, Green-Faith, Religion News

By Lukas Feireiss, co-editor of 'Closer to God: Religious Architecture and Sacred Spaces' (Gestalten). Architecture addresses and expresses. It to...

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The Dark Side of Beauty: The Mosque As "Terror Cell"

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Slidepollajax, East-West Relations, Islam, Mosques, World History, Beauty, Orientalism, Islamic Architecture, Christian-Islamic Relations, Islamophobia, History, Arts News, Middle East, Interfaith, Sacred Architecture, Aesthetics. Architecture, Islamophillia, Arts News
G. Roger Denson

The relationships of cultures are not so very different from the relationships of individuals.

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Part 5: Colonizing the Mosque (Slideshow)

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: History, East-West Relations, Orientalism, Islam, World History, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Islamophobia, Unity of Form, Islamic Architecture, Architecture, Christian-Islamic Relations, Middle East, Interfaith, Slidepollajax, Sacred Architecture, Edward Said, Mosques, Arts News, Principles of Form, Islamophillia, Arts News
G. Roger Denson

With mosques functioning as the local centers of Islamic faith and the object of renewed Western suspicion, it is undeniable that mosques also help keep alive the memory of the divide of civilizations that once rent the world irreparably in two.

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