{"title":"From Roman Temple to Baptist Church: Sin and Transformation in Southern Baptist Culture","authors":"Margaret M. Grubiak","doi":"10.5749/buildland.28.2.0045","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In 1958, the Vestavia Hills Baptist Church transformed a faux-Roman temple house (built in 1925) outside of Birmingham, Alabama, into a space appropriate for Baptist worship. Yet Vestavia's decades-long history of pagan worship, dancing, and drinking stood in direct conflict with Southern Baptist beliefs and cultural practices. This article considers an unusual example of ecclesiastical adaptive reuse to argue that Vestavia's pagan and entertaining past brought Baptist views on sin into sharp relief. Vestavia Hills Baptist Church also crafted a narrative centered on the building's transformation from pagan temple to Christian church to place the new congregation within a much longer Christian heritage.","PeriodicalId":41826,"journal":{"name":"Buildings & Landscapes-Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum","volume":"94 1","pages":"45 - 70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Buildings & Landscapes-Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5749/buildland.28.2.0045","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHITECTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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abstract:In 1958, the Vestavia Hills Baptist Church transformed a faux-Roman temple house (built in 1925) outside of Birmingham, Alabama, into a space appropriate for Baptist worship. Yet Vestavia's decades-long history of pagan worship, dancing, and drinking stood in direct conflict with Southern Baptist beliefs and cultural practices. This article considers an unusual example of ecclesiastical adaptive reuse to argue that Vestavia's pagan and entertaining past brought Baptist views on sin into sharp relief. Vestavia Hills Baptist Church also crafted a narrative centered on the building's transformation from pagan temple to Christian church to place the new congregation within a much longer Christian heritage.
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Buildings & Landscapes is the leading source for scholarly work on vernacular architecture of North America and beyond. The journal continues VAF’s tradition of scholarly publication going back to the first Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture in 1982. Published through the University of Minnesota Press since 2007, the journal moved from one to two issues per year in 2009. Buildings & Landscapes examines the places that people build and experience every day: houses and cities, farmsteads and alleys, churches and courthouses, subdivisions and shopping malls. The journal’s contributorsundefinedhistorians and architectural historians, preservationists and architects, geographers, anthropologists and folklorists, and others whose work involves documenting, analyzing, and interpreting vernacular formsundefinedapproach the built environment as a windows into human life and culture, basing their scholarship on both fieldwork and archival research. The editors encourage submission of articles that explore the ways the built environment shapes everyday life within and beyond North America.
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