When Church Became Theatre The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America

Name: When Church Became Theatre The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America
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ISBN: 9780195143416

ISBN-10: 0195143418

ISBN-13: 9780195143416

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jeanne Halgren Kilde

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For nearly eighteen centuries, two fundamental spatial plans dominated Christian architecture: the basilica and the central plan. In the 1880s, however, profound socio-economic and technological changes in the United States contributed to the rejection of these traditions and the development of a radically new worship building, the auditorium church. When Church Became Theatre focuses on this radical shift in evangelical Protestant architecture and links it to changes inworship style and religious mission. The auditorium style, featuring a prominent stage from which rows of pews radiated up a sloping floor, was derived directly from the theatre, an unusual source for religious architecture…

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List price: $92.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/11/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.50" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Illustrations


When Church Became Theatre



Transformation of Protestant Architecture



Redefining Clerical and Audience Authority in the Architecture of Urban Revivals



Formalism and the Gothic Revival among Evangelical Protestants



Spiritual Armories on the New Suburban Landscape



Church Becomes Theatre



Sacralizing the Evangelical Church as a Church Home



Akron Plan Sunday Schools and Institutional Churches



Meanings in Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Architecture


Notes


Bibliography


Index