Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword / Randall Ott
Acknowledgments
Part I. Disciplinary Perspectives
1. Introduction / Julio Bermudez
2. Light, Silence, and Spirituality in Architecture and Art / Juhani Pallasmaa
3. The Domestic and the Numinous in Sacred Architecture / Thomas Barrie
4. Nature, Healling, and the Numinous / Rebecca Krinke
5. From Bioregional to Reverential Urbanism / Maged Senbel
6. The Risk of the Ineffable / Karla Cavarra Britton
7. Le Corbusier at the Parthenon / Julio Bermudez
Part II. Interdisciplinary Perspectives
8. The Christian Church Building / Kevin Seasoltz
9. Ecclesial Architecture and Image in a Postmodern Age / Mark E. Wedig
10. Spirituality, Social Justice, and the Built Environment / Michael J. Sheridan
11. Ritual, Belief, and Meaning in the Production of Sacred Space / Sue Ann Taylor
12. Architectural Catalysts to Contemplation / Lindsay Jones
13. Transcending Aesthetics / Karsten Harries
Part III. Response from Architectural Practice
14. Calling Forth the Numinous in Architecture / Michael J. Crosbie
15. Elemental Simplicity / Suzane Reatig
16. Transcendence, Where Hast Thou Gone? / Duncan G. Stroik
17. Architectural Quests into the Numinous / Travis Price
18. Reaching for the Numinous / Richard S. Vosko
19. Exploring Transcendence / Thomas Walton
Endnotes, Bibliography, Contributors, Index
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index