Religious Architecture : Anthropological Perspectives

Verkaaik, Oskar

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“…Religious settings, such as churches, mosques, and synagogues, are environments created to facilitate worship, and they are therefore designed to make god as salient as possible for those present. This is often accomplished through architectural or design choices believed to evoke sacred or sublime thoughts and emotions (Joye & Verpooten, 2013; MahdiNejad et al, 2020; Matracchi & Sadeghi Habibabad, 2021; Verkaaik, 2013). Nevertheless, if individuals vary in terms of what qualities they most associate with the divine, the activation of these god concepts may serve as a distinct filter through which to view that particular environment.…”

Section: Impressions Of the Physical Environmentmentioning

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Seeing god in this place: God concepts are associated with impressions of religious places.

Meagher¹

2024

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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Worship spaces play a critical role in religious life, serving as the center of activity for faith communities. As a consequence, these spaces form strong associations with the deity that is worshiped there. The goal of this project was to investigate the extent to which religious adherents may come to view these spaces in ways that are influenced by their conceptualization of what god is like. This article reports a pair of studies that tests how congregants' impressions of both their own worship space (Study 1) and novel worship spaces (Study 2) are guided by their god concepts. Participants (N = 478 in Study 1; N = 407 in Study 2) completed measures assessing their conceptualization of god, followed by providing their impressions of a religious setting in terms of its perceptual legibility (i.e., coherence) and mystery (e.g., complexity). In both studies, those who viewed god in highly benevolent terms were more likely to rate religious settings as high in perceptual legibility (i.e., coherent and easy to understand). In contrast, those who conceptualized god as primarily mystical and ineffable were more likely to view these religious settings as high in perceptual mystery (i.e., complex and requiring exploration). These findings reveal how people's beliefs about god can serve as conceptual filters through which they view the physical world.

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Section: Impressions Of the Physical Environmentmentioning

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Seeing god in this place: God concepts are associated with impressions of religious places.

Meagher¹

2024

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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Exploring the Evolution of the Digital Future and Its Impact on Mosque Architecture

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Alkhiami

Mohamad

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Advances in Civil Engineering Materials

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Aftermath of Cultural Heritage Disasters

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There is no doubt that we live in fraught times. In the world of museums and cultural heritage protection, we feel it keenly. As symbols and microcosms of respective cultures, museums are thought to reflect society or, at the very least, sections of society or certain historical moments. But the extent to which museums should and do reflect the diversity of people in those societies is the question du jour. Sometimes, it seems as if this question is an internal one—the practical struggle of often underfunded institutions to square the injustices of a past that is encoded into collections with a newfound awareness of visitors, or the theoretical debate about just how multivocal, democratic, and oriented toward social justice a museum can be before it ceases to be a “museum.” The consequences of such struggles and debates can often seem far removed from the concerns of ordinary residents, who may only occasionally visit museums or heritage monuments. Our perception of this disregard perhaps calls into question the impact of our work. But in times of crisis, that doubt is removed and the relevance of cultural heritage becomes clear. Crisis often crystallizes what is most important. That is not surprising. In this special section, we explore the sometimes surprising nature of the aftermath.

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Religious Architecture : Anthropological Perspectives

Cited by 3 publications

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Seeing god in this place: God concepts are associated with impressions of religious places.

Seeing god in this place: God concepts are associated with impressions of religious places.

Exploring the Evolution of the Digital Future and Its Impact on Mosque Architecture

Aftermath of Cultural Heritage Disasters

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