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

by Jeanne Halgren Kilde

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195179722
• ISBN13: 9780195179729
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.2"