Despite the atheism of renowned abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, artist was commissioned by Christians to create a sacred space that originally intended be used religious believers: Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas. The project started out as collaboration between and another atheist: famed architect Phillip Johnson, who designed several prominent spaces throughout his distinguished c...

The architectural styles of the second half 20th century are analyzed, in particular, brutalism, which was result a negative assessment situation culture late 19th century. Opinions leading theorists presented. Features characteristic end presented.
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This paper considers religion in relation to four recurrent traits: belief systems incorporating supernatural agents and counterintuitive concepts, communal ritual, separation of the sacred and the profane, and adolescence as a preferred developmental period for religious transmission. These co-occurring traits are viewed as an adaptive complex that offers clues to the evolution of religion fro...

This paper considers religion in relation to four recurrent traits: belief systems incorporating supernatural agents and counterintuitive concepts, communal ritual, separation of the sacred and the profane, and adolescence as a preferred developmental period for religious transmission. These co-occurring traits are viewed as an adaptive complex that offers clues to the evolution of religion fro...

The classicism of the first decade 20th century was analyzed as a result negative assessment situation in culture late 19th century. opinions such cultural theorists Max Nordau or Richard Hamann, who represent extreme individualism and isolation art from moral social tasks, are manifestations degeneration decline, leading society to madness collapse. features characteristic end (fin de siècle) ...

Nature displays profound preference for certain specific ratios to design her life-forms. These are geometric relationships that are transcendent and originated from Sacred Geometry. The view that geometry had a ritual origin is a part of a wider view that civilisation itself had a ritual origin, and therefore the history of utilisation of Sacred Geometry by man goes back to many centuries ago....

Tree worship is very common worldwide. This field study surveys the ceremonies and customs related to sacred trees in present-day Israel; it includes the results of interviews with 98 informants in thirty-one Arab, Bedouin, and Druze villages in the Galilee. The main results are: 1. Sacred trees were treated as another kind of sacred entity with all their metaphysical as well as physical manife...