Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 “A Beautiful Future”: Reading the Past, Reclaiming the Present 19
7. 2 In What Style Shall We Build? Reaction and Modernism in the Church 44
8. 3 The Suspension of History: Modernist Medievalisms 65
9. 4 The Question of Technology: Catholic Responses to Functionalist Architecture 91
10. 5 Fascinating Fascism: Aura, Myth, and Cultural Diplomacy 117
11. 6 Deproletarianizing the Poor: Churches, Mass Politics, and the City 141
12. 7 Building Utopia: Towns, Villages, and the Countryside 168
13. 8 Values, Object Choice, Method: Religious Architecture and the Historiography of Modernism 193
14. Notes 209
15. Bibliography 227
16. Index 263