White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960

by Margaret M. Grubiak

Book Overview

In White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960, Margaret M. Grubiak persuasively argues, through a careful selection of case studies, that the evolution of the architecture of new churches and chapels built on campuses reveals the shifting and declining role of religion within the mission of the modern American university. According to Grubiak, during the first half of the twentieth century, university...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268207186
• ISBN13: 9780268207182
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"