Bibliography

Bibliography

RELIGIOUS HERITAGE CULTURALLY – A BIBLIOGRAPHY

This bibliography provides reading suggestions to both academics and non-academics who wish to understand religious heritage from a non-confessional perspective. The list has been drafted and is being updated regularly by FRH’s Scientific Advisory Committee. Any questions on the bibliography and suggestions for further titles/references can be submitted per email via info@frh-europe.org

I UNDERSTANDING RELIGIOUS HERITAGE (SYSTEMATICAL, THEMATICAL)

Beyer, Franz-Heinrich, Geheiligte Räume. Theologie, Geschichte und Symbolik des Kirchengebäudes, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2008

Carrero Santamaría, Eduardo, La catedral habitada. Historia viva de un espacio arquitectónico, Bellaterra: Edicions UAB, 2019

Coomans, Thomas, Hermann de Dijn, Jan De Maeyer, Rajesh Heynicks, Bart Verschaffel (eds), Loci Sacri. Understanding Sacred Places, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2012 

Davies, J. G., The Secular Use of Church Buildings, SCM Press Ltd, London, 1968

Dianich, Severino, La Chiesa e le sue chiese. Teologia e architettura, Cinisello Balsamo: San Paolo 2008 (also available in Spanish: La Iglesia y sus iglesias)

Elcheikh, Zeina, Die Moschee. Architektur zwischen Geistlichem und Weltlichem, Neulingen: Klotz 2020

Erlande-Brandenburg, Alain, Qu’est-ce qu’une église?, Paris: Gallimard, 2010 

Gatti, Vincenzo, Lituergia e arte. I luoghi della celebrazione, Bologna: EDB, 2001

Goecke-Seischab, Margarete Luise & Ohlemacher, Jörg, Kirchen erkunden – Kirchen erschließen. Ein Handbuch mit über 300 Sachzeichnungen und Übersichtstafeln, sowie einer Einführung in die Kirchenpädagogik, Lahr: Kaufmann, 1998

Goecke-Seischab, Margarete Luise & Harz, Frieder, Der Kirchen-Atlas. Räume entdecken, Stile erkennen, Symbole und Bilder verstehen, München: Kösel, 2008

Iogna-Prat, D.. Cité de Dieu. Cité des hommes. L’église et l’architecture de la société. Paris: PUF 2016

Jones, Lawrence E., What to See in a Country Church, London: Phoenix House, 1960  

Kieckhefer, Richard, Theology in Stone. Church Architecture from Byzantium to Berkeley. New York, Oxford University Press 2004 

Kilde, Jeanne, Sacred Power, Sacred Space. An Introduction to Christian Architecture and Worship, New York: Oxford University Press 2008

Le Gendre, Armelle, Comment regarder une église. Histoire. Culte. Symboles, Vanves: Hazan, 2014

Militello, Cettina, La casa del popolo di Dio. Modelli ecclesiologici, modelli architettonici, Bologna, EDB, 2006.

Murray, Peter and Linda, The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture. The key to Western Art’s Most Potent Symbolism, Oxford/New York: OUP, 1998

Roemer, Werner, Abbild des Himmels, Zur Theologie des Kirchengebäudes, Kevelaer: Butzon & Becker, 2001

Rupp, Hartmut (ed.), Handbuch der Kirchenpädagogik 1. Kirchenräume wahrnehmen, deuten und erschließen, Stuttgart: Calwer, 2006

Sinke, Anton, Kerken, kapellen en kathedralen. Beeldgids voor de vakantieganger, Zoetermeer: Meinema, 2010

Vosko, R.S. (2019), Art and Architecture for Congregational Worship. The Search for a Common Ground, Collegeville, PA: Liturgical Press

Yates, Nigel, Liturgical Space: Christian Worship and Church Buildings in Western Europe 1500-2000, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008

II THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS HERITAGE 

A The Middle Ages (500-1500)

Henningsson, Anna, Hanner Nordstrand, Charlotta & Warscheid, Thomas (eds), Medieval Murals in the Church Attics of Östergötland: Technical Art History, Reception History, Value: Proceedings of a Symposium held on the 8-9th September 2015 at Norrköping Art Museum Organised by ICOMOS Sweden’s Scientific Working Group for Mural Paintings. 

Huerta Huerta, Pedro Luis, Mobiliario y ajuar litúrgico en las iglesias románicas, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2011.

Iogna-Prat, D., La Maison-Dieu. Une histoire monumentale de l’Église au Moyen Âge (v. 800-v. 1200). Paris: Seuil 2006

Kroesen, Justin & Regnerus Steensma, The Interior of the Medieval Village Church, Louvain etc.: Peeters, 2012

Kroesen, Justin & Tångeberg, Peter, Die mittelalterliche Sakramentsnische auf Gotland 

(Schweden): Kunst und Liturgie, Petersberg: Michael Imhof, 2014

Nille, Christian, Mittelalterliche Sakralarchitektur interpretieren. Eine Einführung, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2013

Saxtorph, Niels M., Jeg ser på kalkmalerier. En gennemgang af alle kalkmalerier i danske kirker, Copenhagen: Politiken, 1967 

Spicer, Andrew, S. Hamilton (eds), Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005

B The Modern Period (1500-1950)

Chipps Smith, J., Sensuous worship: Jesuits and the art of the early Catholic Reformation in Germany, Princeton N.J.: Princeton UP, 2002

Coster, Will, Andrew Spicer (eds), Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe, Cambridge: CUP, 2005

Heal, Bridget, A Magnificent Faith: Art and Identity in Lutheran Germany, Oxford: OUP, 2017

Wangsgard Jürgensen, Martin, Ritual and Art across the Danish Reformation: Changing Interiors of Village Churches, 1450-1600, Turnhout: Brepols, 2018

Randall, Catharine, Building Codes: The Aesthetics of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe, Philadelphia: Pennsylvania UP, 1999

Reymond, Bernard, L’Architecture religieuse des protestants. Histoire, characteristiques, problèmes actuels, Genève: Labor et Fides, 1996

Sjöström, Ingrid, Knapas, Marja Terttu & Storsletten, Ola (eds), Kyrka af träd. Kyrkobyggande under 1600-talen i Finland, Norge och Sverige, Stockholm: Riksantikvarieämbetets förlag, 2000.

Spicer, Andrew, Sarah Hamilton (eds), Defining the Holy: Sacred Space in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005

Spicer, Andrew, Calvinist Churches in Early Modern Europe, Manchester: Manchester UP, 2007

Spicer, Andrew (ed.), Lutheran Churches in Early Modern Europe, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012

Spicer, Andrew (ed.), Parish Churches in the Early Modern World, Farnham: Ashgate, 2016

Steensma, Regnerus, Protestantse kerken. Hun pracht en kracht, Gorredijk: Bornmeer, 2014

III DESCRIPTIVE (NON-THEMATICAL) STUDIES WITH A NATIONAL FOCUS

(UK) Anderson, M. D., History and Imagery in British Churches, London: John Murray, 1971 

(The Netherlands) Beyer, Marc de, Albert Reinstra, Pia Verhoeven (eds), Kerkinterieurs in Nederland, Zwolle: WBooks, 2016 (reprints 2017, 2019)

(Sweden) Bonnier, Ann Catherine, Göran Hägg, Ingrid Sjöström, Svenska kyrkor. En historisk reseguide, Stockholm: Medströms bokförlag, 2008

(UK) Clifton-Taylor, Alec, English Parish Churches as Works of Art, London: B.T. Batsford, 1974

(UK) Clifton-Taylor, Alec, The Cathedrals of England, London: Thames & Hudson, 1986 

(UK) Exploring Britain’s Churches and Chapels. Inspirational Journeys of Discovery, Basingstoke: AA Publishing, 2011

(Finland) Hiekkanen, Markus, Finlands medeltida stenkyrkor, Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 2020 

(UK) Jenkins, Simon, England’s Thousand Best Churches, London: Penguin, 1999

(Denmark) Kjær, Ulla, Poul Grinder-Hansen, Kirkerne i Danmark, 2 Vols.,, Copenhagen: Boghandlerforlaget, 1989 

(The Netherlands) Lier, Saskia van, Het kerken boek, Zwolle: WBooks, 2009

(Denmark) Mosumgaard, Børge, Kig på kirker. Håndbog for kirketurister, Vejle, 1966

(Norway) Sørmoen, Oddbjørn, Kirker i Norge, 6 Vols., Oslo: Arfo, 2000-2008

(Denmark) Stilling, Niels Peter, Danmarks kirker, Copenhagen: Politiken, 2000

(UK) Strong, Roy, A Little History of the English Country Church, London: Vintage, 2008

(UK) Surman, Richard, Betjeman’s Best British Churches. New Edition, London: Collins, 1999

(Norway) Willetts Borgen, Linn (ed.), Religiositetens kulturminner (=Fortidsminneforeningens årbok 2020), Oslo: Fortidsminneforeningen, 2020

IV CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES, TRANSFORMATIONS THEORY AND FUTURE MANAGEMENT 

Chavardès, Benjamin, and Philippe Dufieux (eds), L’avenir des églises. État des lieux, stratégies et programmes de reconversion, Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2018 

Bartolomei, Luigi (ed.), Il futuro degli edifici di culto/The future of Churches and Paesaggi/Landscapes, fascicoli monografici di «IN_BO. Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l’architettura», 10 (2016) e 11 (2017) 

Bartolomei, Luigi, and Sofia Nannini (eds,), La casa comune/Common house. Nuovi scenari per patrimoni monastici dismessi, fascicolo monografico di «IN_BO. Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l’architettura», 12 (2021) 

Bartolozzi, Carla (ed.), Patrimonio architettonico religioso. Nuove funzioni e processi di trasformazione. Roma: Gangemi 2017

Büchse Angelika, Herbert Fendrich, Philipp Reichling and Walter Zahner (eds), Kirchen. Nutzung und Umnutzung. Kulturgeschichtliche, theologische und praktische Reflexionen, Münster: Aschendorff 2012 

Capanni, Fabrizio (ed.), Dio non abita più qui? Dismissione di luoghi di culto e gestione integrate dei beni culturali ecclesiastici/Doesn’t God dwell here anymore? Decommissioning places of worship and integrated management of ecclesiastical cultural heritage. Roma: Artemide 2019

Diotallevi, Luca (ed.), Secolarizzazione, dismissione e riutilizzo dei luoghi di culto,  monographical issue of Religioni e società. Rivista di scienze sociali della religione, XXXV, 96 (2020) 10.19272/202031301004

Erne Thomas, Hybride Räume der Transzendenz. Wozu wir heute noch Kirchen brauchen. Studien zu einer postsäkralen Theorie des Kirchenbaus, Leipzig : Evangelische Verlagsanstalt 2017

Erne T., Noss P., Bracht C. (eds), Open Spaces. Räume religiöser und spiritueller Vielfalt. Kromsdorf/Weimar: Jonas 2016.

Faltrauer, Claude, Philippe Martin, Lionel Obadia (eds), Patrimoine religieux. Désacralisation, requalification, réappropriation: le patrimoine chrétien, Paris: Riveneuve éditions, 2013 

Fernández Cobián, Esteban (ed.), Architectural Actions on the Religious Heritage after Vatican II, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2020

Fisch, Rainer, Umnutzung vor Kirchengebäuden in Deutschland. Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme, Bonn: Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, 2008 

Frémaux, Céline (ed.), Architecture religieuse au XXe siècle. Quel patrimoine?, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007 

Gerhards, Albert, Kim de Wildt (eds), Wandel und Wertschätzung. Synergien für die Zukunft von Kirchenräumen, Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2017 

Gerhards, Albert, Martin Struck, Umbruch – Abbruch – Aufbruch? Nutzen und Zukunft unserer Kirchengebäude, Regensburg: Schnell und Steiner 2008

Hillström. Magdalena, Löfgren Eva & Wetterberg, Ola (eds), Alla dessa kyrkor. Kulturvård, religion och politik, Göteborg: Göteborgs universitet, 2017

Jager Markus, Silvia Malcovati and Wolfgang Sonne (eds), Chiuso al culto. Secular Transformations of Church Buildings in Venice. Venice Summer Scademy 2014, Dortmund: TU Dortmund, 2014

Jaspers, Jan, Jonas Dankers, Dimitri Stevens, Leven in de Kerk. Valorisatie, medegebruik, nevenbestemming en herbestemming van onroerend religieus erfgoed in Vlaanderen, Brugge: Vanden Broelle-CRKC, 2018

Karlsmo, Emelie, Lindblad, Jakob & Widmark, Henrik (eds). De kyrkliga kulturarven. Aktuell forskning och pedagogisk utveckling (=Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Arcus Sacri Nr 1), Uppsala; Uppsala universitet, 2014.

Kirche leer – Was dann? Neue Nutzungskonzepte für alte Kirchen, Petersberg: Michael Imhof, 2011

Kirchengebäude und ihre Zukunft. Sanierung-Umbau-Umnutzung, Ludwigsburg: Wüstenrot Stiftung, 2017 

Lindblad, Henrik & Löfgren, Eva, Religious Buildings in Transition: An international comparison. Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, 2016 (translated into English 2018). PDF, available at: https://www.frh-europe.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/international-report-religious-buildings-in-transition.pdf

Lindblad, Henrik, “Ecclesiastical Heritage as Human Right”: Olimpia Niglio and Eric Yong Joong Lee (eds), Transcultural Diplomacy and International Law, Singapore: Springer Nature, 2021

Matzig, Gerhard, Kirchen in Not. Über den profanen Umgang mit sakralen Denkmälern, Bonn: Deutsches Nationalkomitee für Denkmalschutz, 1997

Morisset, Lucie K, Noppen, Luc & Coomans, Thomas (eds), Quel avenir pour quelles églises/What future for which churches? Québec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2006

Neumann, Birgit & Rösener, Antje, Was tun mit underen Kirchen? Kirchen erleben, nutzen und erhalten. Ein Arbeitsbuch, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2006

Niglio, Olimpia, & Chiara Visentin (eds), Conoscere, conservare, valorizzare il patrimonio culturale religioso Canterano: Aracne 2017.

Noppen, Luc, Thomas Coomans & Martin Drouin (eds), Des couvents en heritage/Religious Houses: A Legacy, Québec: Presses de l’Université de Quebec, 2018

Pignatti, A., & L. Baraldi (eds), Il patrimonio culturale di interesse religioso. Sfide e opportunità tra scena italiana e orizzonte internazionale, Milano: Franco Angeli, 2017

Post, Paul, Arie Molendijk, & Justin Kroesen (eds), Sacred Places in Modern Western Culture, Louvain/Paris/Walpole MA: Peeters Publishers, 2011

Poulios, Ioannis, A Living Heritage Approach – Meteora, Greece, London: Ubiquity Press, 2014.

Reinstra, Albert, & Frank Strolenberg (eds), Kerkgebouwen. 88 inspirerende voorbeelden van nieuw gebruik – van appartement tot zorgcomplex, Wageningen: Blauwdruk, 2020

Resenberg, G. and Walter Zahner (eds). Zusammen spiel. Kunst im sakralen Raum. Neubau, Umbau, Künstlerische Aufträge, Regensburg: Schnell und Steiner, 2018.

Rohan Chabot, Olivier de, La Sauvegarde de l’Art Français. Aide aux églises rurales (Cahier 23), Paris: Sauvegarde de l’art français, 2011 

Sauvé, Jean-Sébastien, Thomas Coomans (eds), Le devenir des églises. Patrimonialisation ou disparition, Québec: Presses de l’Université du Quebec, 2014

Sigrist, Christoph (ed.), Kirchen Macht Raum. Beiträge zu einer kontroversen Debatte, Zürich: Theologischer Verlag, 2010

Stovel, Herb, Nicholas Stanley-Price, & Robert Killick (eds), Conservation of Living Religious Heritage (Papers from the ICCROM 2003, Forum on Living Religious Heritage: conserving the sacred, ICCROM Conservation Studies 3), 2003

Stückelberger, Johannes (ed.), Kirchenumnutzungen. Der Blick aufs Ganze, monographic issue of Kunst und Kirche, 2015/4

Walter, Nigel, Narrative Theory in Conservation. Change and Living Buildings. Taylor & Francis, 2020

Wijesuryia, Gamini, “Towards the de-secularisation of heritage”. In Built Heritage, Vol 1, No 2, 2017. Available at: https://openarchive.icomos.org/id/eprint/1811/1/Towards_the_De-secularisation_of_Heritag.pdf (accessed 24 September 2021).

Wüstenrot Stiftung (ed.), Kirchengebäude und ihre Zukunft. Sanierung – Umbau – Umnutzung, Ludwigsburg: Wüstenrot Stiftung 2017

Zanten, Mieke van, Gids voor behoud en beheer van kerkelijk kunstbezit. Een praktische handleiding, Den Haag: SDU, 1994

V CONVENTIONS, CHARTERS, POLICY DOCUMENTS AND GUIDELINES

EUROPEAN QUALITY PRINCIPLES for EU-funded Interventions with potential impact upon Cultural Heritage – Revised edition November 2020. Manual. ICOMOS International, Paris. Available at: EUQS_revised-2020_EN_ebook.pdf (icomos.org)  (accessed 24 September 2021)

DECOMMISSIONING AND ECCLESIAL REUSE OF CHURCHES. Guidelines, Pontificium Consilium di Cultura, Vatican 17 December 2018. Available at: http://www.cultura.va/content/dam/cultura/docs/pdf/beniculturali/guidelines.pdf

(accessed 24 September 2021)

LEEUWARDEN DECLARATION. ADAPTIVE RE-USE OF THE BUILT HERITAGE: PRESERVING AND ENHANCING. THE VALUES OF OUR BUILT HERITAGE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. Adopted on 23 November 2018 in Leeuwarden (The Netherlands). Available at: https://www.ace-cae.eu/fileadmin/New_Upload/_15_EU_Project/Creative_Europe/Conference_Built_Heritage/LEEUWARDEN_STATEMENT_FINAL_EN-NEW.pdf (accessed 24 September 2021)

Congregation for the Clergy (2013), ‘Procedural Guidelines for the Modification of Parishes, the Closure or Relegation of churches to Profane but non Sordid Use, and the Alienation of the Same’, 30.4.2013 (published in Enchiridion Vaticanum, coll. 562a-562ii, XXIX, Bologna, Dehoniane, 2015)

The Burra Carter. The Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance. Australia ICOMOS 2013. Available at: http://australia.icomos.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Burra-Charter-2013-Adopted-31.10.2013.pdf (accessed 24 September 2021)

Statement on the Protection of Religious Properties within the Framework of the World Heritage Convention (Kyiv, 5 November 2010). Available at: https://whc.unesco.org/en/religious-sacred-heritage/#history (accessed 24 September 2021)

Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society. Faro, 27.X.2005. Available at: https://rm.coe.int/1680083746 (accessed 24 September 2012)

Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. UNESCO 2003. Available at: https://ich.unesco.org/en/convention (accessed 24 September 2021)

Pontificia Commissione Centrale per l’Arte Sacra in Italia (1987), Carta sulla destinazione d’uso degli antichi edifici ecclesiastici / Charte sur l’utilisation des anciens bâtiments ecclésiastiques, 26 ottobre 1987, Roma (see Arte Cristiana, LXXV, 723, 11-12: 410-412)

Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, UNESCO 1972. Available at: https://whc.unesco.org/en/conventiontext/

(accessed 24 September 2021)