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Adidam communities
Adidam sacred spaces
architecture and religious experience
architecture of belief
Author_Martha Bradley Evans
Branch Davidians
Branch Davidians compound
Branch Davidians Waco
built environments of faith
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community and sacred design
divine presence in architecture
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faith and space
faith communities and geography
faith-based architecture
faith-based community planning
FLDS compounds
forthcoming
hierarchies in religious space
LDS temple architecture
monastic architecture
Mormon temple locations
Oneida colony
Oneida utopian experiment
pilgrimage sites and architecture
religion and architecture
religion and built environment
religion and everyday spaces
religion and material culture
religion and space
religion and spatial order
religion and urban planning
religious architecture
religious colonies in America
religious community design
religious community spaces
religious enclosures
religious identity and space
religious landscapes
religious movement landscapes
religious settlements
religious site selection
religious space and power
religious symbolism in architecture
religious traditions and space
religious utopias
ritual and built environment
sacred and profane spaces
sacred geography
sacred landscapes and identity
sacred space symbolism
sacred space theory
sacred spaces
Shaker architectural order
Shaker villages
spatial religion
spatial theology
spiritual landscapes
spiritual meaning in architecture
theology of architecture
theology of space
utopian religious communities
Product details
- ISBN 9781647692377
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2026
- Publisher: University of Utah Press,U.S.
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Worldviews and experiences of place among noted religious communities
Religion transforms and inspires specific ways of living in the world. Through architecture and the built environment, members of religious communities communicate intangible beliefs about God, gender and family, the sacred and profane, and more. This captivating volume explores the spatial worlds of six different religious communities— the Latter-day Saints, the Oneida Colony, the Shakers, the Branch Davidians, the FLDS, and Adidam—through the architecture and cultural landscapes they built.
What does the strict order and regularity of a Shaker village tell us about the community’s hierarchies and relationships? How might a temple building site affect an LDS Church member’s daily life? Constructing Space reveals the hidden language of meaning, association, and identity that religious persons speak as they mold their faith into concrete forms, and how they interpret the meanings of those spaces within their practices.
Religion transforms and inspires specific ways of living in the world. Through architecture and the built environment, members of religious communities communicate intangible beliefs about God, gender and family, the sacred and profane, and more. This captivating volume explores the spatial worlds of six different religious communities— the Latter-day Saints, the Oneida Colony, the Shakers, the Branch Davidians, the FLDS, and Adidam—through the architecture and cultural landscapes they built.
What does the strict order and regularity of a Shaker village tell us about the community’s hierarchies and relationships? How might a temple building site affect an LDS Church member’s daily life? Constructing Space reveals the hidden language of meaning, association, and identity that religious persons speak as they mold their faith into concrete forms, and how they interpret the meanings of those spaces within their practices.
Martha Bradley Evans, former senior associate vice president of academic affairs and dean of undergraduate studies at the University of Utah, is author of Pedestals and Podiums: Utah Women, Religious Authority and Equal Rights and An Architectural Travel Guide to Utah.
