Architecture Religion

Christianity presents a glorious vision for culture, a vision overflowing with truth, beauty, and goodness. It's a vision that stands in stark conflict with the anemic modern (and postmodern) perspectives that dominate contemporary life. Medieval Christianity began telling a beautiful story about the good life, but it was silenced in mid-sentence. The Reformation rescued truth, but its modern grandchildren have often ignored the importance of a medieval grasp of the good life. This audiobook sketches a vision of Medieval Protestantism, one that embraces the fullness of Christian truth.

I have been filming people talking about the afterlife for over a decade, and have reported extensively how I came to this line of questioning. These reports have been gathered over the past two years; some remain anonymous, some are not - either way, they are people fully conscious, eyes open, staring into the distance over my shoulder (or speaking live on the radio) accessing vistas and worlds I've heard about from other people.

It’s time to break free from our Sunday-centric, formulaic versions of church and instead architect fresh kingdom ecosystems as an ancient yet new frontier for sustainable mission. The temptation for many church leaders is to take what’s worked elsewhere and use it as a paint-by-number. Yet Jesus showed us a different way. Every word he spoke and everything he did utterly broke the molds, rules, and laws that people had created to confine God and his kingdom.

Horror begins at home. From family homes in Amityville to Gothic mansions in Los Angeles and the Unabomber's cabin, houses often capture and contain the horror that has happened within them. Sick Houses crosses the threshold of these eerie spaces to explore how different types of architecture become vessels for terror and how these spaces, meant to shelter us, instead become the source of our deepest fears.

Secrets of Sacred Space is an informative guide to understanding and creating sacred places of power for meditation, renewal, and connection with the earth. Chuck Pettis comprehends the sacred and powerful design of ancient monuments like the pyramids and Stonehenge. He has learned how to communicate with devas and other spiritual beings to discover the spiritual essence of a site. He will teach you to discover how ley lines, water lines, and power centers define a sacred space. You’ll learn age-honored methods: dowsing, cosmic geometry, geomancy, astronomical alignment, symbolism, earth ...

Transcending Architecture considers the mysterious, profound, and real power of designed environments to address the spiritual dimension of our humanity. The book offers a wide, critical, and nuanced understanding of the lived relationship between the built and the numinous worlds. It examines phenomenological, symbolic and designerly ways in which the holy gets fixed and experienced through buildings, landscapes, and urban forms, and not just in institutionally defined religious or sacred places. Transcending Architecture brings together a stellar group of scholars and practitioners to share their insights: architect Juhani Pallasmaa and philosopher Karsten Harries, comparative religion scholar Lindsay Jones and architectural theoretician Karla Britton, sacred architecture researcher Thomas Barrie and theologian Kevin Seasoltz, landscape architect Rebecca Krinke and Faith & Form magazine editor Michael Crosbie, are among the illustrious contributors.

If you've always wanted to unlock the secrets of humanity's greatest empires but endless textbooks and confusing timelines have left you more lost than enlightened, then keep reading… Are you sick and tired of wanting to understand ancient civilizations but feeling overwhelmed by dry, dense academic writing that sucks all the wonder out of history? Have you tried documentaries, Wikipedia rabbit holes, and dusty history books but nothing seems to stick for more than a few days? You see, understanding the rise and fall of the world's most powerful ancient civilizations doesn't have to be a ...

Taking Measure reveals patterns emergent in our universe, from quantum to astronomic scales. Spatial and temporal codes appear in unexpected places, from our units of measure to the relationships between celestial bodies. Geometric and numeric encoding appears in architecture, urban design, and alignments across the Earth. Does this happen by pure coincidence? Is it an ancient form of magic that continues to this day? This audiobook takes a new look at familiar structures in the tangible world, but also engages with the invisible world, including the question of consciousness.

“How Can I More Effectively Reach People of My Generation with the Message of the Gospel?”Start the story where God starts the story.In other words, it’s not about “lifestyle evangelism.” Or being cleverer than the person with whom you’re talking. Or knowing everything there is to...

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 ‘Exhilarating and whip-smart’ THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward Wilson-Lee, this is a thrilling true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal. A History of Water follows the interconnected...

Sacred Sanctuaries of Bali explores five of the island’s most revered temples, shrines, and holy places, weaving together history, myth, architecture, archaeology and living tradition. Drawing on both scholarship and personal experience, Ni Wayan Murni – one of Bali’s most respected cultural voices – and photographer Jonathan Copeland guide readers into the spiritual heart of Bali. The book presents Bali’s sacred sites not just as monuments of stone and carving, but as living centers of devotion, ritual, and community life. It explains the origins of these major sanctuaries and ...

TAOLISM: The Architecture of Life A Clear, Timeless Code for Personal and Planetary Well-Being In an age of rising chaos, disconnection, and climate crisis, TAOLISM offers something rare: clarity. This is not a religion. It is not dogma. It’s a grounded framework for ethical, sustainable living—rooted in science, reason, and real-world consequence. The word TAOLISM comes from the acronym TAOL—The Architecture of Life—a term that reflects the foundational structure of existence itself. TAOLISM is a call to align our behavior with the reality we inhabit. At its heart are seven ...

Every day of the week in contemporary America (and especially on Sundays) people raise money for their religious enterprises - for clergy, educators, buildings, charity, youth-oriented work, and more. In a fascinating look into the economics of American Protestantism, James Hudnut-Beumler examines how churches have raised and spent money from colonial times to the present and considers what these practices say about both religion and American culture.

1748. Une femme noire marche dans les rues de Séville, laissant derrière elle son passé d'esclave à Cuba. Caridad est affranchie mais démunie. Recueillie chez des Gitans, elle se lie d'amitié avec Milagros Carmona, une adolescente fière et passionnée de danse et de musique. Bientôt, celle-ci lui confesse son amour pour un jeune homme appartenant à un clan ennemi. De son côté, Caridad s'efforce de dissimuler ses sentiments naissants pour Melchor Vega, le grand-père de Milagros, crapuleux et séducteur mais fervant défenseur des siens.

Un royaume déchiré entre deux religions, un amour sans limites, un homme face à son destin... 1568. Royaume de Grenade. Écrasés par l'Inquisition, humiliés par des années d'oppression, les Maures prennent les armes et font couler le sang dans les villages blancs de la Sierra Nevada. Né d'une Mauresque violée par un prêtre catholique, Hernando dit "le nazaréen", en raison de ses yeux bleus, est entraîné dans ce combat qu'il fera sien.