Designing the suburban church: the mid twentieth-century Roman Catholic churches of Reynolds & Scott

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to whom I am also grateful. I would also like to thank Miles Ogborn and the three anonymous reviewers for their comments, which have helped greatly to improve the article.

Geographical approaches to religion in the past

“…Geographical explorations of purpose‐built religious spaces have often discussed their design. Some have read their design as illustrative of religious leaders' theological principles and liturgical practices (Cheshire, 2008; Corbin, 1986; Proctor, 2017; Slatter, 2015; Wodzinski, 2016; Yates, 2008; Yilmaz, 2012), or the economic, political, and social power of social elites (McDonagh, 2009; Rawding, 1990; Stevenson, 2013; Yeoh & Boon Hui, 1995). Such approaches have demonstrated how purpose‐built spaces of institutionalised religion were simultaneously informed by religious principles and social expectations.…”