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Churches.
Photographs by David Spero. Edited by Michael Mack.
Steidl Mack, Gottingen, 2007.
144 pp.,
65 color illustrations,
6x11½".
Publisher's Description
The churches in this book reflect the diverse range
of denominations and sects that form the
Charismatic Evangelical movement today.
Materially and architecturally, the buildings reflect
a Spiritualist church movement reacting against
secular Material Rationalism and consumerism.
They feature none of the monumental architecture
or symbols of status and power of the historically
dominant denominations like Roman Catholicism.
The buildings were never designed to be churches,
and this random collection of architectural structures
is the result of numerous acts of faith. Often
temporary, semi-permanent or unconsecrated, they
are sometimes anonymous and almost invisible.
They are usually located where we would least
expect to find them: in industrial estates, shopping
malls, houses, garages, cinemas, above commercial
properties and even pubs. Spero’s work acknowledges
that the divine may exist in the most unlikely
places, and testifies to our enduring need to seek
out a state of grace.
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