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  title info:
    title: Sacred power, sacred space
    sub title: an introduction to Christian architecture and worship
  name:
    name part: Kilde, Jeanne Halgren
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  genre: History (form)
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 236 pages) : illustrations, plans
  abstract: Jeanne Halgren Kilde's survey of church architecture is unlike any other. Her main concern is not the buildings themselves, but rather the dynamic character of Christianity and how church buildings shape and influence the religion. Kilde argues that a primary function of church buildings is to represent and reify three different types of power: divine power, or ideas about God; personal empowerment as manifested in the individual's perceived relationship to the divine; and social power, meaning the relationships between groups such as clergy and laity. Each type intersects with notions of Christian creed, cult, and code, and is represented spatially and materially in church buildings. Kilde explores these categories chronologically, from the early church to the twentieth century. She considers the form, organization, and use of worship rooms; the location of churches; and the interaction between churches and the wider culture. Church buildings have been integral to Christianity, and Kilde's important study sheds new light on the way they impact all aspects of the religion. Neither mere witnesses to transformations of religious thought or nor simple backgrounds for religious practice, church buildings are, in Kilde's view, dynamic participants in religious change and goldmines of information on Christianity itself.
  table of contents: A method for thinking about power dynamics in Christian space -- Early Christian meeting space in the Roman empire -- Imperial power in Constantinian and Byzantine churches -- From abbey to great church, fortress to heavenly city -- Transformations of the Renaissance and Reformation -- Formalism and non- or antiformalism in worship and architecture -- Historicism, modernism, and space -- Concluding observations.
  note: Jeanne Halgren Kilde.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-221) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Liturgy and architecture
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Church architecture
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Liturgie et architecture
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Architecture chrétienne
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: churches (buildings)
  subject:
    topic: 21.70 religious architecture
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: Christianity
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Church architecture
  subject:
    topic: Liturgy and architecture
  subject:
    topic: Bouwkunst
  subject:
    topic: Christelijke kunst
  subject:
    topic: Liturgie
  classification: NA4605 .K48 2008eb
  classification: 246/.909
  classification: 21.70
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 080728
    record change date: 20260318173431.2
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng