When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America by Kilde, Jeanne Halgren

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Paperback / softback. New. In the 1880s, profound socio-economic and technological changes in the United States contributed to the rejection of Christian architectural 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 in worship style and religious mission.

Oxford University Press, USA, January 2005. Paper Back. New. A church congregation issues an appeal for architects to enter a building design competition. Its new sanctuary must accommodate 6,000 people because the well-known senior pastor draws large crowds. The acoustics must be superb, and the preaching platform must include room for a 150-voice choir. A competition like this doesn't sound unusual now, at the beginning of the 21st century; megachurch architecture has been common since the 1980's. But this particular call for building designs appeared in 1859, continuing an established trend away from traditional forms in Evangelical worship. As the title suggests, by the early nineteenth-century Evangelical architecture was already moving toward the pattern of public entertainment venues. New church buildings, modeled from the auditorium and the ampitheatre, both served and propelled a simultaneous change in worship style. Kilde's book examines not only church building, but… Read More

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