Espacios de la diversidad religiosa en Colombia. Historia, formas y sentidos

Abstract

This book presents the results of the research project "Religious diversity and architecture in Colombia", carried out by the research groups "Sagrado y Profano" (UIS) and Ginvearqui (USTA), with financial support from the Vice-Rectory for Research and Extension of the Industrial University of Santander, the Research and Information Unit and the International Relations Management Office - DRI- of the Santo Tomás University, Bucaramanga. He makes a socio-architectural analysis of 15 places of worship representative of significant religious groups in Colombia. Variables that interrelate the sacred space with religious representations and expressions are analyzed. It seeks to answer questions such as: What is the configuration of the spaces responsible for hosting the various religious practices?; .how is space sacralized?; What physical or phenomenological elements characterize these spaces and are in charge or not of providing symbolic charges to the architectural object?; What is the relationship between interreligious currents and the design and use of these spaces?; .to what extent do sacred spaces influence the environment? The answer to these questions led us to understand the close relationship that exists, in most cases, between practice or ritual and architecture or space and all of this, in relation to the environment.