RT Book
T1 The archaeology of Protestant landscapes: revealing the formation of community identity in the US South
T2 Archaeology of the American South new directions and perspectives
A1 Pyszka, Kimberly 1969-
LA English
PP Tuscaloosa
PB The University of Alabama Press
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/183129771X
AB "This is a work of historical archaeology in the American South focusing on religious institutions-two churches and a college-as they existed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Recently, historical archaeologists are considering more work on churches, churchyards, and cemeteries. Traditionally, the dearth of artifacts was a primary deterrent. Kimberly Pyszka notes that archaeologists have an increasing awareness of how these sites contribute to questions of identity, consumerism, trade, and colonialism, especially when using a landscape archaeology lens. Pyszka aims to demonstrate that select religious institutions used and modified natural landscape features to express their ideology, identity, goals, and social, religious, and political power. Where those structures were constructed, how they sat on the landscape, their architectural style, and their overall visual appearance were well-considered decisions made by religious leaders to benefit their organizations, communities, and, sometimes, themselves. A secondary goal is to show the social roles that religious organizations played in the development of communities. Pyszka connects back to those landscape decisions, specifically to how the architectural design of religious structures was used, intentionally or not, to unite people, often those of differing religious backgrounds. This contributed to the creation of a new common identity among people living in new and still-growing settlements, aiding in community development. She also wants readers to reflect on today's religious landscapes and the ways they are still used to express religious, social, and political ideology and identity"--
AB Explores how religious institutions used landscapes and architecture to express their religious and social ideologies. The book focuses on three religious institutions in the US South in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
NO "A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication."
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN NA4828.5
SN 9780817321628
K1 Protestant church buildings : Social aspects : Southern States
K1 Church Architecture : Social aspects : Southern States : History
K1 Protestantism : Southern States : History
K1 Cultural landscapes : Southern States
K1 Landscape archaeology : Southern States
K1 Architecture and archaeology : Southern States
K1 ARCHITECTURE / Religious Buildings
K1 Archaeology
K1 Architektur: Kirchen, Sakralbauten
K1 Archäologie
K1 Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte
K1 HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
K1 Regional & national history
K1 Religious buildings
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
K1 Southern States : Religious life and customs
K1 Southern States : History : Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
K1 Southern States : History : 1775-1865
K1 Usa