Architecture Guide: Building Liberal Religion

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Building Liberal Religion

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By:"Matthew Singer"
Published on 2016 by

Building Liberal Religion: Jews and Unitarians Reform Faith and Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia fuses family, social, intellectual, and religious histories with material culture analysis to document, interpret, and explore the achievements of the ecumenical network that developed between Victorian Philadelphias community of Americanizing and liberalizing Jews and Unitarians. The locus of this network was the relationship that developed between the Reverend William Henry Furness (18021896) of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia and the progressive Rabbi Marcus Jastrow (18291903) of Congregation Rodeph Shalom soon after the rabbis arrival in Philadelphia in 1866. This network expanded and continued for some sixty years among the clerics families, congregations, colleagues, and friends. Through his singular talents, vision, and the prolificness, the Reverends son Frank Furness (18021896) translated the reformist theological, philosophical, social, and aesthetic sensibilities that shaped the ministry of his father and the rabbinate of Marcus Jastrow into ecclesiastical, cultural, educational, commercial, and domestic structures and their furnishings. In doing so, the junior Furnesswith the initial support of his father and Rabbi Jastrow and continuing with the patronage of their cohort of reform-minded individualscreated a built landscape in Philadelphia that stood as evidence of strong links connecting religious and social reform with aesthetic change. By analyzing its most significant structures, I place this reformed built landscape in the context of the nationally and internationally emerging ideological, theological, aesthetic, and social concepts and concerns that inspired its creation. Many, but alas not all, of the buildings that composed the reformed built landscape of late-nineteenth-century Philadelphia still stand. Numerous works of scholarship and literature produced by the Reverend Furness, Rabbi Jastrow, their accomplished children, and others in their circle may be found on library bookshelves. They are with us, but have not been considered as the cohesive expression of a collective reformist and ecumenical spirit. This dissertation seeks both to address this oversight and discuss its relevance to contemporary life in the United States.

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Architecture Guide

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Building Liberal Religion

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