When Church Became Theatre
The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship in Nineteenth-Century America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 July 2002
- ISBN 9780195143416
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 242x165x24 mm
- Weight 608 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones 0
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Short description:
In late 19th century America, profound socio-economic and technological changes contributed to the rejection of traditional church architecture and the development of a radically new worship building, the neo-medieval auditorium church. These Protestant churches contained extraordinary new auxiliary spaces, including kitchens, dining rooms, and lounges. Their real showpieces, however, were always the sanctuaries, radial-plan auditoria best described as 'theatres', with their elaborate pulpit stages, sloping floors, and curving pews. Many contained proscenium arches, marquee lighting, and theatre seats. Jeanne Halgren Kilde focuses on how the buildings helped to negotiate supernatural, social, and personal power. Their extraordinary interiors, she says, profoundly altered religious power relations. Borrowed directly from the architecture of the theatre, these worship spaces underscored performative and entertainment aspects of the worship service. By erecting these buildings, argues Kilde, middle class religious audiences demonstrated the move toward a consumer-oriented model of a religious participation that gave them unprecedented influence over the worship experience and church mission.
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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 in worship 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 but one with a similar goal-to gather large groups within range of a speaker's voice. Theatrical elements were prominent; many featured proscenium arches, marquee lighting, theatre seats, and even opera boxes.
Examining these churches and the discussions surrounding their development, Jeanne Halgren Kilde focuses on how these buildings helped congregations negotiate supernatural, social, and personal power. These worship spaces underscored performative and entertainment aspects of the service and in so doing transformed relationships between clergy and audiences. In auditorium churches, the congregants' personal and social power derived as much from consumerism as from piety, and clerical power lay in dramatic expertise rather than connections to social institutions. By erecting these buildings, argues Kilde, middle class religious audiences demonstrated the move toward a consumer-oriented model of religious participation that gave them unprecedented influence over the worship experience and church mission.
When Church Became Theatre is a milestone that not only provides a history of the evolution of the relationships between Church architecture and worship but also deepens our understanding of the class-based creation of family values within American evengelicism and elucidates the emerging institutionalization and uniformity of instruction within new Sunday Schools.
Table of Contents:
The Transformation of Protestant Architechture
Redefining Clerical and Audience Authority in the Architechture 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
Building for the Children: Akron Plan Sunday Schools and Institutional Churches
Meanings in Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Architechture
