Midcentury: Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Design Opening up new avenues of thinking about how people deal with theological questions in the vernacular, Grubiak’s book shows how religious doubt is made manifest in the humorous, satirical, blasphemous, and popular culture responses to religious architecture and image in modern America. These responses of doubt activate our religious built environment in ways unanticipated but illuminating, asking us, at times forcefully, to consider and clarify what it is we believe. to the renamed 'Gumby Jesus' of the Christ of the Ozarks statue in Eureka Springs, Arkansas - and how such constructions are confronted by the doubt and dismissiveness articulated by the more skeptical of their viewers. Grubiak considers an array of sacred architectural constructions-from 'Touchdown Jesus' at the University of Notre Dame to the Wizard of Oz Mormon temple outside Washington D.C.

In her lively study of satire and religious architecture, Margaret Grubiak challenges how we typically view such sites by shifting the focus from believers to doubters, and from producers to consumers.

This is the latest development in the ongoing controversy surrounding President Obama’s commencement speech at the nation’s most prominent Roman Catholic university.The American landscape is host to numerous works of religious architecture, sometimes questionable in taste and large, if not titanic, in scale. It all seems a little silly.” This from a local South Bend fabric store owner who requested anonymity. “13 stories of mural will take 13 stories of fabric. “Look if the Jesuits were willing to drape a painting this is the least we can do.” “We are canceling the traditional Baccalaureate Mass in favor of a more ecumenical service,” said a Notre Dame spokesman.

Notre Dame will also drape all the other religious statues on campus. Jenkins feels as we do that it is important to be inclusive of all the American people and to the World.” Fortunately, the University has agreed to accommodate our request. White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs: “We just feel that having Jesus so prominently featured at a Presidential appearance sends the wrong message to non-Christians. In South Bend, the University of Notre Dame is actively searching for enough fabric to shroud “Touchdown Jesus.” “Touchdown Jesus” is the better known nickname of the 13 story mosaic of Christ the Redeemer on the edifice of the Fr.

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