Author: Frank GreenagelPublisher:
ISBN: 9781494311032
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Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The six chapters of this brief work are slightly-edited reprints of the Overview chapters from my books on the religious architecture of the state. Only a few readers will see more than one of those books (now 13 in all) yet there is good stuff in them and I am loath to see all of it disappear without a trace. Moreover, the overviews offer a quick means of getting a sense of the churchscape of a county-how many of the old buildings survive, the distribution among denominations, a sense of the major social and cultural factors (immigration, urbanization, wealth accumulation) that shaped the plan, location and style of the buildings. Although I have been working at this project for about 15 years, all of these chapters are from recently published works and represent my current thinking. The counties included (Burlington, Cumberland, Essex, Hudson, Morris and Warren) represent 565 of the estimated 1,500 remaining churches, meetinghouses and synagogues in the state. Five of the chapters are taken from books in print; I have not completed the Hudson work so that section may seem a bit disjointed; I have included it because Hudson represents a distinctive development that is not repeated elsewhere. The Overview is the last part of each book completed, excepting only the Index, and to some extent represents a summation of the most salient aspects of the county's ecclesiastical architecture.