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Churches and Symbolic Power in the Irish Landscape

Churches and Symbolic Power in the Irish Landscape AbstractThe history of churches in Ireland has been treated primarily as an analysis of built artefacts. Architectural historians have discussed the phases in the development of styles and analysed the evolution of particular ecclesiastical structures, treating any individual church as a more or less representative or perfect example of a genre. The discourse has been primarily aesthetic and disembodied from place and landscape. This article seeks to place churches in the Irish landscape and to understand them as part of the landscape of belief and as contested symbols of power and authority. The article discusses how churches have been and continue to be used to assert ownership of the landscape and to control the interpretation of place, from the era of the early Christian communities to today's campaigners who use churches as symbols of endangered heritage. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Churches and Symbolic Power in the Irish Landscape

Maguire, Martin
Landscapes , Volume 5 (2): 24 – Oct 1, 2004
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2004 Maney
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2040-8153
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1466-2035
DOI
10.1179/lan.2004.5.2.91
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AbstractThe history of churches in Ireland has been treated primarily as an analysis of built artefacts. Architectural historians have discussed the phases in the development of styles and analysed the evolution of particular ecclesiastical structures, treating any individual church as a more or less representative or perfect example of a genre. The discourse has been primarily aesthetic and disembodied from place and landscape. This article seeks to place churches in the Irish landscape and to understand them as part of the landscape of belief and as contested symbols of power and authority. The article discusses how churches have been and continue to be used to assert ownership of the landscape and to control the interpretation of place, from the era of the early Christian communities to today's campaigners who use churches as symbols of endangered heritage.

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Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Oct 1, 2004

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