Smashed tabernacle: Catholic emptiness and nationalism in post-industrial Scotland
Authors: Dominic Martin
Location: United Kingdom
Themes: Materiality, Nationalism, Religion
Dominic Martin, seeking to understand the phenomenon of ‘emptiness’, reflects on the emblematic trajectory of a remarkable building and the mythopoetic insight it provides into the absent future of the Scottish Catholic experience: the celebrated modernist architectural ruin, St Peter's, Cardross, Scotland.