Building Faith: A Sociology of Religious Structures

by Robert Brenneman, Brian Miller, Brian J. Miller

The social sciences have mostly ignored the role of physical buildings in shaping the social fabric of communities and groups. Although the emerging field of the sociology of architecture has started to pay attention to physical structures, Brenneman and Miller are the first to combine the light of sociological theory and the empirical method in order to understand the impact of physical structures on religious groups that build, transform, and maintain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190883448
• ISBN13: 9780190883447
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"