• 

  Kadoc Territories of faith

  religion, urban planning and demographic change in post-war Europe

  In the 1950s and 1960s, thousands of churches were built across Europe in an attempt to keep up with the continent's rapid urbanisation. This book addresses the immense effort related to the planning, financing, and construction of this new religious infrastructure. Going beyond aspects of style and liturgy, and transcending a focus on particular architects or regions, this volume considers church building at the crossroads of pastoral theology, religious sociology, and urban planning. Presenting...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | PDF, 6,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022

  E-book

• 

  The book of requiems

  from the earliest ages to the present period

  Few western musical repertories speak more to the imagination than the Requiem mass for the dead. The Book of Requiems presents in-depth essays on the most important works in this tradition, from the origins of the genre up to the present day. Each chapter is devoted to a specific Requiem, and offers both historical information and a detailed work-discussion. Conceived as a multi-volume essay collection by leading experts, The Book of Requiems is an authoritative reference publication intended as...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | PDF, 5,1 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022

  E-book

• 

  Sarah Hegenbart From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso

  Christoph Schlingensief’s Opera Village Africa as postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk?

  Opera Village Africa, a participatory art experiment by the late German multimedia artist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a critical interrogation of Richard Wagner's notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner's introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to Schlingensief's attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso. Schlingensief developed Opera Village in...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | PDF, 16 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022

  E-book

Paginanavigatie