Het boek Constructing Faith in the Antipodes (ISBN:9789461666826) geschreven door Lisa Marie Daunt bestel je op bruna.nl! Over 1,650 churches were built in Queensland, Australia, between 1945 and 1977. They constitute some of the most notable modern architecture in the state and reveal tensions surrounding modernism's role in cultural expression and regional identity. While much research has focused on post-war modern church architecture in the Global North, little has been done on the Global South. This book offers a particular perspective on modernist church architecture, differing from accounts of buildings in the northern hemisphere, as it highlights how church architecture in Queensland was shaped by its very specific time and place - a young and developing state covering a vast area of land, sparsely populated, highly multi-denominational and located in the antipodes. Modern architectural developments and emergent religious ideas did not simply...