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-This anthology of essays exploring religion, architecture, and design presents a cross-section of current thinking, trends and propositions concerning the environments that we create for worship. Sigurd Bergmann . . . brings together the work of fourteen contributors (including the journal's editor and editorial advisor Richard Vosko) who consider the place of architecture, art, and design in historical and contemporary sacred places. The contributors view buildings, scriptures, conversations, prayers, preachings, artifacts, music and drama, and built and natural surroundings as contributors to a contextual theology.- --Faith & Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture -Theology in Built Environments is utterly fascinating reading and deserves a place in any collection devoted to religion or architecture.- --Wisconsin Bookwatch -The essays are uniformly thoughtful, scholarly, and provocative. Recommended.- --Choice -One of the volume's greatest strengths is its disciplinary diversity, which includes essays by theologians, Christian ethicists, sociologists of religion, architect, and visual artists.- --Richard R. Bohannon II, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture This anthology of essays exploring religion, architecture, and design presents a cross-section of current thinking, trends and propositions concerning the environments that we create for worship. Sigurd Bergmann . . . brings together the work of fourteen contributors (including the journal's editor and editorial advisor Richard Vosko) who consider the place of architecture, art, and design in historical and contemporary sacred places. The contributors view buildings, scriptures, conversations, prayers, preachings, artifacts, music and drama, and built and natural surroundings as contributors to a contextual theology. --Faith & Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture Theology in Built Environments is utterly fascinating reading and deserves a place in any collection devoted to religion or architecture. --Wisconsin Bookwatch The essays are uniformly thoughtful, scholarly, and provocative. Recommended. --Choice One of the volume's greatest strengths is its disciplinary diversity, which includes essays by theologians, Christian ethicists, sociologists of religion, architect, and visual artists. --Richard R. Bohannon II, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture Theology in Built Environments is utterly fascinating reading and deserves a place in any collection devoted to religion or architecture. -- Wisconsin Bookwatch The essays are uniformly thoughtful, scholarly, and provocative. Recommended. -- Choice One of the volume's greatest strengths is its disciplinary diversity, which includes essays by theologians, Christian ethicists, sociologists of religion, architect, and visual artists. --Richard R. Bohannon II, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture This anthology of essays exploring religion, architecture, and design presents a cross-section of current thinking, trends and propositions concerning the environments that we create for worship. Sigurd Bergmann . . . brings together the work of fourteen contributors (including the journal's editor and editorial advisor Richard Vosko) who consider the place of architecture, art, and design in historical and contemporary sacred places. The contributors view buildings, scriptures, conversations, prayers, preachings, artifacts, music and drama, and built and natural surroundings as contributors to a contextual theology. --Faith & Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture This anthology of essays exploring religion, architecture, and design presents a cross-section of current thinking, trends and propositions concerning the environments that we create for worship. Sigurd Bergmann . . . brings together the work of fourteen contributors (including the journal's editor and editorial advisor Richard Vosko) who consider the place of architecture, art, and design in historical and contemporary sacred places. The contributors view buildings, scriptures, conversations, prayers, preachings, artifacts, music and drama, and built and natural surroundings as contributors to a contextual theology. --Faith & Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture Theology in Built Environments is utterly fascinating reading and deserves a place in any collection devoted to religion or architecture. -- Wisconsin Bookwatch The essays are uniformly thoughtful, scholarly, and provocative. Recommended. -- Choice

<p> This anthology of essays exploring religion, architecture, and design presents a cross-section of current thinking, trends and propositions concerning the environments that we create for worship. Sigurd Bergmann . . . brings together the work of fourteen contributors (including the journal's editor and editorial advisor Richard Vosko) who consider the place of architecture, art, and design in historical and contemporary sacred places. The contributors view buildings, scriptures, conversations, prayers, preachings, artifacts, music and drama, and built and natural surroundings as contributors to a contextual theology. <p> --Faith & Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture

-This anthology of essays exploring religion, architecture, and design presents a cross-section of current thinking, trends and propositions concerning the environments that we create for worship. Sigurd Bergmann . . . brings together the work of fourteen contributors (including the journal's editor and editorial advisor Richard Vosko) who consider the place of architecture, art, and design in historical and contemporary sacred places. The contributors view buildings, scriptures, conversations, prayers, preachings, artifacts, music and drama, and built and natural surroundings as contributors to a contextual theology.- --Faith & Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture

-This anthology of essays exploring religion, architecture, and design presents a cross-section of current thinking, trends and propositions concerning the environments that we create for worship. Sigurd Bergmann . . . brings together the work of fourteen contributors (including the journal's editor and editorial advisor Richard Vosko) who consider the place of architecture, art, and design in historical and contemporary sacred places. The contributors view buildings, scriptures, conversations, prayers, preachings, artifacts, music and drama, and built and natural surroundings as contributors to a contextual theology.- --Faith & Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture -Theology in Built Environments is utterly fascinating reading and deserves a place in any collection devoted to religion or architecture.- --Wisconsin Bookwatch -The essays are uniformly thoughtful, scholarly, and provocative. Recommended.- --Choice -One of the volume's greatest strengths is its disciplinary diversity, which includes essays by theologians, Christian ethicists, sociologists of religion, architect, and visual artists.- --Richard R. Bohannon II, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture This anthology of essays exploring religion, architecture, and design presents a cross-section of current thinking, trends and propositions concerning the environments that we create for worship. Sigurd Bergmann . . . brings together the work of fourteen contributors (including the journal's editor and editorial advisor Richard Vosko) who consider the place of architecture, art, and design in historical and contemporary sacred places. The contributors view buildings, scriptures, conversations, prayers, preachings, artifacts, music and drama, and built and natural surroundings as contributors to a contextual theology. --Faith & Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture Theology in Built Environments is utterly fascinating reading and deserves a place in any collection devoted to religion or architecture. --Wisconsin Bookwatch The essays are uniformly thoughtful, scholarly, and provocative. Recommended. --Choice One of the volume's greatest strengths is its disciplinary diversity, which includes essays by theologians, Christian ethicists, sociologists of religion, architect, and visual artists. --Richard R. Bohannon II, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture Theology in Built Environments is utterly fascinating reading and deserves a place in any collection devoted to religion or architecture. -- Wisconsin Bookwatch The essays are uniformly thoughtful, scholarly, and provocative. Recommended. -- Choice One of the volume's greatest strengths is its disciplinary diversity, which includes essays by theologians, Christian ethicists, sociologists of religion, architect, and visual artists. --Richard R. Bohannon II, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture This anthology of essays exploring religion, architecture, and design presents a cross-section of current thinking, trends and propositions concerning the environments that we create for worship. Sigurd Bergmann . . . brings together the work of fourteen contributors (including the journal's editor and editorial advisor Richard Vosko) who consider the place of architecture, art, and design in historical and contemporary sacred places. The contributors view buildings, scriptures, conversations, prayers, preachings, artifacts, music and drama, and built and natural surroundings as contributors to a contextual theology. --Faith & Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture This anthology of essays exploring religion, architecture, and design presents a cross-section of current thinking, trends and propositions concerning the environments that we create for worship. Sigurd Bergmann . . . brings together the work of fourteen contributors (including the journal's editor and editorial advisor Richard Vosko) who consider the place of architecture, art, and design in historical and contemporary sacred places. The contributors view buildings, scriptures, conversations, prayers, preachings, artifacts, music and drama, and built and natural surroundings as contributors to a contextual theology. --Faith & Form: The Interfaith Journal on Religion, Art and Architecture Theology in Built Environments is utterly fascinating reading and deserves a place in any collection devoted to religion or architecture. -- Wisconsin Bookwatch The essays are uniformly thoughtful, scholarly, and provocative. Recommended. -- Choice

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Sigurd Bergmann, is professor of religious studies (theology, ethics and philosophy of religion) at the department of archaeology and religious studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, and Chair of the European Forum for the Study of Religion and the Environment. Among his publications are In the Beginning Is the Icon: A Liberative Theology of Images, Arts and Culture, Spaces of Mobility and The Ethics of Mobilities.

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