Temple Tracks
Title | Temple Tracks PDF eBook |
Author | Vineeta Sinha |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1805390163 |
The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructure and transnational mobilities with religion. In Malaysia and Singapore, evidence of religion-making and railway-building from a colonial past is visible in multiple modes and media as memories, recollections and 'traces'.
Annual Report
Title | Annual Report PDF eBook |
Author | Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners |
Publisher | |
Pages | 884 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN |
Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners
Title | Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners PDF eBook |
Author | Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners |
Publisher | |
Pages | 878 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN |
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Title | Public Documents of Massachusetts PDF eBook |
Author | Massachusetts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1290 |
Release | 1874 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Locations of the Boston Street Railways, Granted by the Board of Aldermen
Title | Locations of the Boston Street Railways, Granted by the Board of Aldermen PDF eBook |
Author | Boston (Mass.). City Council |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | Street-railroads |
ISBN |
Document
Title | Document PDF eBook |
Author | Boston (Mass.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1402 |
Release | 1896 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Monumental Jesus
Title | Monumental Jesus PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret M. Grubiak |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2020-02-11 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0813943752 |
The American landscape is host to numerous works of religious architecture, sometimes questionable in taste and large, if not titanic, in scale. In her lively study of satire and religious architecture, Margaret Grubiak challenges how we typically view such sites by shifting the focus from believers to doubters, and from producers to consumers. Grubiak considers an array of sacred architectural constructions—from "Touchdown Jesus" at the University of Notre Dame to the Wizard of Oz Mormon temple outside Washington D.C. to the renamed "Gumby Jesus" of the Christ of the Ozarks statue in Eureka Springs, Arkansas - and how such constructions are confronted by the doubt and dismissiveness articulated by the more skeptical of their viewers. These responses of doubt activate our religious built environment in ways unanticipated but illuminating, asking us, at times forcefully, to consider and clarify what it is we believe. Opening up new avenues of thinking about how people deal with theological questions in the vernacular, Grubiak’s book shows how religious doubt is made manifest in the humorous, satirical, blasphemous, and popular culture responses to religious architecture and image in modern America. Midcentury: Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design