How a house happens

By Jan Adkins

Book Overview

While devotional practices are usually viewed as mechanisms for reinforcing religious boundaries, in the multicultural, multiconfessional world of the Eastern Mediterranean, shared shrines sustain intercommunal and interreligious contact among groups. Heterodox, marginal, and largely ignored by central authorities, these practices persist despite aggressive, homogenizing nationalist movements. This volume challenges much of the received wisdom concerning the three major monotheistic religions and the "clash of civilizations." Contributors examine intertwined religious traditions along the shores of the Near East from North Africa to the Balkans.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802760937
• ISBN13: 9780802760937
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Walker
• Length: 29 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great summary of exactly how a house is built

My 7-year-old daughter and I found this book in our local library shortly after she decided that shw wanted to design houses when she grows up. It describes in the language of an architect *exactly* how a custom-designed house is built, from the need of the prospective homeowners to the day they move in. The drawings are both detailed and whimsical; the pages are architect-style drawings and the text is hand-printed. All in all, a wonderful book for a future architect.