Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality

This chapter notes two general approaches, the substantive and functional, in how spirituality and religion may be conceptualized. A functional understanding is less focused on the...

That lay women and men increasingly serve as leaders of institutional ministries in the Church is nothing new. Yet, until now, these lay leaders have longed for theological resourc...

This chapter argues that by secular medicine’s repudiation of religious partners, it ironically establishes itself as a religious-like phenomenon. Medicine is dangerously close to ...

Current rapprochement strategies for medicine and spirituality are in tension with three distinct constituencies: skeptics, spiritual generalists, and religious particularists. Eac...

This chapter outlines four reasons why medicine should resist a spirituality of immanence as its chief love. First, this spirituality is incongruent with the beliefs of most Americ...

Palaces like the Aljafería and the Alhambra rank among the highest achievements of the Islamic world. In recent years archaeological work at Córdoba, Kairouan and many other sites ...

If religion is changing rather than declining, the number involved in new expressions of religious and spiritual interest should come close to matching those lost to the churches, ...

In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney’s Princess and the Frog and Pirates ...