Margaret M Grubiak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1468963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret M Grubiak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret M |
| FAMILY NAME | Grubiak |
| SIGNATURE | GRUBIAK M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Villanova University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Kick Off Your Sunday Shoes! The Material Religion of Footloose
The 1984 movie Footloose tells a story about sin mediated by materiality. Based on the 1980 events of teenagers overcoming a dancing ban in Elmore City, Oklahoma, Footloose made visible an American religious subculture that believed dancing was a sin because it could lead to sex outside of marriage. The movie crafted a material world of sin embedded in the cultural context of Jerry Fallwell Sr.’s Moral Majority and Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” an…
The Suburban Church
"The Suburban Church: Modernism and Community in Postwar America." Material Religion, 12(4), pp. 512–513
An Architecture for the Electronic Church
More than a university, Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was also the headquarters for evangelist Oral Roberts's electronic church. The electronic church in America, dominated by Christian evangelicals, used technology to spread the Gospel over radio airways and television signals to a dispersed audience. Yet evangelicals like Roberts also constructed ambitious campuses in real space and time. The architecture of Oral Roberts Universit…
Visualizing the modern catholic university
"Touchdown Jesus," the well-known moniker of the enormous mural of Christ on the University of Notre Dame's skyscraper library, defines the University of Notre Dame in the popular imagination, wittily uniting the university's famed football tradition with its Catholic identity. Yet the original intention of the 1964 mural, formally titled The Word of Life, and its library had little to do with football. Instead, the library and mural were part of…
Reassessing Yale’s Cathedral Orgy
The Sterling Memorial Library (1927–31) at Yale University employed the ecclesiastical metaphor to imagine a new place for religion in the modern university, where secular and scientific concerns increasingly overshadowed religion. Architect James Gamble Rogers patterned the neo‐Gothic library after a cathedral, complete with an entrance nave, an Alma Mater altar piece, and a Gutenberg Bible relic. Yet the range of the building’s interpretations,…
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Reassessing Yale’s Cathedral Orgy
The Sterling Memorial Library (1927–31) at Yale University employed the ecclesiastical metaphor to imagine a new place for religion in the modern university, where secular and scientific concerns increasingly overshadowed religion. Architect James Gamble Rogers patterned the neo‐Gothic library after a cathedral, complete with an entrance nave, an Alma Mater altar piece, and a Gutenberg Bible relic. Yet the range of the building’s interpretations,…
Visualizing the modern catholic university
"Touchdown Jesus," the well-known moniker of the enormous mural of Christ on the University of Notre Dame's skyscraper library, defines the University of Notre Dame in the popular imagination, wittily uniting the university's famed football tradition with its Catholic identity. Yet the original intention of the 1964 mural, formally titled The Word of Life, and its library had little to do with football. Instead, the library and mural were part of…
The Suburban Church
"The Suburban Church: Modernism and Community in Postwar America." Material Religion, 12(4), pp. 512–513
An Architecture for the Electronic Church
More than a university, Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was also the headquarters for evangelist Oral Roberts's electronic church. The electronic church in America, dominated by Christian evangelicals, used technology to spread the Gospel over radio airways and television signals to a dispersed audience. Yet evangelicals like Roberts also constructed ambitious campuses in real space and time. The architecture of Oral Roberts Universit…
Kick Off Your Sunday Shoes! The Material Religion of Footloose
The 1984 movie Footloose tells a story about sin mediated by materiality. Based on the 1980 events of teenagers overcoming a dancing ban in Elmore City, Oklahoma, Footloose made visible an American religious subculture that believed dancing was a sin because it could lead to sex outside of marriage. The movie crafted a material world of sin embedded in the cultural context of Jerry Fallwell Sr.’s Moral Majority and Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” an…
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