Houses of God: Region, Religion, and Architecture in the United States

by Peter W. Williams

Book Overview

Houses of God is a fascinating look at how Americans shape their places of worship into multifaceted reflections of their culture, beliefs, and times. Peter Williams divides the nation into seven distinctive regions - New England, the Mid-Atlantic states, the South, the Old Northwest, the Great Plains and Mountains, the Spanish Borderlands, and the Pacific Rim - and traces the historical development of and geographic influences on religious building...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252019067
• ISBN13: 9780252019067
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 321 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 11.3"