Entrée principale:

Bremner, G. A., 1974-

Titre et auteur:

Imperial gothic : religious architecture and high Anglican culture in the British empire, c. 1840-1870 / G.A. Bremner.

Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2013.

Description:

xv, 484 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Anglicanism and the British Colonial World: Transplanting the Faith -- 1. In Principio: The Foundations and Early Development of Colonial Ecclesiology -- 2. The Colonial Cathedral: Monumentalising the Apostolic Tradition -- 3. Adaptation and Invention: The Theory and Practice of Acclimatisation -- 4. Symbolism and Identity: Faith, National Form and the Politics of Empire -- 5. Conflict and Confrontation: Architecture in an Age of Sectarianism -- 6. 'A church [almost] as it should be': The High Noon of Colonial Ecclesiology -- 7. Bringing the Empire Home: Mission Work and Church Extension in the British Isles -- Conclusion -- The Imperial Dimension: Anglican Architecture and its Influence.

Résumé:

Traces the global reach & influence of the Gothic Revival throughout Britain's empire. Focusing on religious buildings, this book examines the reinvigoration of the colonial & missionary agenda of the Church of England & its relationship with the rise of Anglian ecclesiology.

ISBN:

9780300187038 (cl ; alk. paper)
0300187033 (cl ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Church architecture Great Britain Colonies History 19th century.
Architecture, British colonial History 19th century.
Anglican church buildings Great Britain Colonies History 19th century.
Architecture and society Great Britain Colonies History 19th century.
Nationalism and architecture Great Britain.
Architecture chrétienne Grande-Bretagne Colonies Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture coloniale britannique Histoire 19e siècle.
Églises anglicanes Grande-Bretagne Colonies Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture et société Grande-Bretagne Colonies Histoire 19e siècle.
Nationalisme et architecture Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture, British colonial.
Nationalism and architecture.
Kirchenbau
Anglikanische Kirche
Neugotik
Kolonie
Great Britain.
Großbritannien

Classification/genre:

History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 283187
Cote: BIB 221232
Statut: Disponible