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Podcast: In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Episode: Allan Doig, "A History of the Church through its Buildings" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Description: A History of the Church through its Buildings (Oxford University Press, 2021) by Allan Doig takes the reader to meet people who lived through momentous religious changes in the very spaces where the story of the Church took shape. Buildings are about people, the people who conceived, designed, financed, and used them. Their stories become embedded in the very fabric itself, and as the fabric is changed through time in response to changing use, relationships, and beliefs, the architecture becomes the standing history of passing waves of humanity.This process takes on special significance in chu...