caa a22 4500 388090499 CHVBK 20180307125249.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3170862 doi S0009640700084912 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/3170862 Williams Peter W. Distinguished Professor of Religion and American Studies at Miami University. On January 9, 999, he delivered this paper as the presidential address to the American Society of Church History. The Iconography of the American City: or, A Gothic Tale of Modern Times [Elektronische Daten] [Peter W. Williams] Some dozen years ago, I began in collaboration with David Holmes, Dewey Wallace, Charles Wallace, and others to conduct tours of houses of worship during the annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion and the American Society of Church History. The challenge of these tours for me gradually metamorphosed from providing basic information on dates, architectural styles, and parish history highlights—all useful enough in themselves—to reading these buildings in the broader context of the urban built environment. Churches, synagogues, and other religious buildings do not appear in the vacuum that a slide presentation or text illustration might suggest. Rather, they are in a continual mute dialogue with their surroundings, which in the urban context tend to be other buildings of commercial or civic purpose. The context is also four-dimensional. Not only do religious buildings themselves undergo expansion, remodeling, and changes in denominational identity, but their neighbors frequently change even more rapidly. Copyright © American Society of Church History 1999 Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 68/2(1999-06), 373-397 0009-6407 68:2<373 1999 68 CHH https://doi.org/10.2307/3170862 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3170862 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Williams Peter W. Distinguished Professor of Religion and American Studies at Miami University. On January 9, 999, he delivered this paper as the presidential address to the American Society of Church History NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture Cambridge University Press 68/2(1999-06), 373-397 0009-6407 68:2<373 1999 68 CHH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge