Jeanne Halgren Kilde
Biographic Data
| ID | 279307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeanne Halgren Kilde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeanne Halgren |
| FAMILY NAME | Kilde |
| SIGNATURE | KILDE J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8180-5630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Sacred and Profane to Spiritual Space
This article offers a brief historical and semantic overview of the twentieth-century development of four key concepts central to the study of religious space—“sacred,” “profane,” “sacred space,” and “spirituality”—with an emphasis on the attendant changes in the general experience of power within Christian churches that accompanied these conceptual revisions. Drawing attention to the positionality of scholars involved in the semantic variations,…
Creating the Multifaith Chapel, 1938-1955
Interfaith or multifaith chapels are so ubiquitous now in the United States-present in colleges and universities, hospitals, shopping malls, and airports-that their development as a distinct architectural form is often taken for granted. Yet that development in the mid-twentieth century was complex and even fraught. Taking a religious studies approach, this article examines the development of three early examples-the Chapel of the Four Chaplains,…
The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space
How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience? This handbook brings together thirty-seven authors who address these questions using a range of methods to analyze specific spaces or types of spaces around the world and across time. Their methods are grounded in many disciplines: religious studies and religion, anthropology, archaeology, architectur…
Oxford Handbook of Religious Space
A pril E. H olm . A Kingdom Divided
April E. Holm’s well-researched and compelling book A Kingdom Divided: Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era opens with a quote from Robert Stanton’s 1864 pronouncement laying the blame for the Civil War squarely “at the door of the Church”—specifically on the schisms that split Protestant denominations during the antebellum period. Without endorsing that perspective, Holm convincingly details how an influential “religious …
Protestant Theologies and the Problem of Sacred Space
The phrase sacred space, suggesting a spiritually evocative environment infused with divine or transcendent presence, is currently applied to almost all religious places, including almost all Christian churches and chapels. Yet Protestant leaders from the Reformation onward vigorously opposed such an understanding of God's relationship to humanly created worship space. For them, God was not immanent in specific spaces or buildings. How is it that…
Salvation with a Smile
In Salvation with a Smile Phillip Luke Sinitiere sets out to explicate the “historical significance and cultural meaning of Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church” within the context of American Christianity (p. 5). He achieves an engaging illumination of the path that led to the astounding success of the man he unabashedly calls the “most powerful twenty-first century evangelical minister” and the church he sees as “America's most consequential congreg…
Approaching Religious Space
The study of religious space, both physical and imagined, has advanced significantly in the past two decades, drawing upon theoretical perspectives and analytical methods from several fields, from anthropology and historical studies, to geography and architecture, to social and literary critical theory. Marking a path through this varied landscape of approaches, this essay presents a four-part taxonomy into which most can be classified. The categ…
Tri-Faith America
In 1955, sociologist Will Herberg used the phrase “Protestant, Catholic, Jew” to title his biting assessment of religion in America. By the time he did so, this tri-faith image, in circulation for over two decades, had become a widely embraced description and celebration of religious tolerance and pluralism in the democratic United States. Although the sociological accuracy of the phrase has been sharply questioned since Herberg's use of it, the …
The Park 51/Ground Zero Controversy and Sacred Sites as Contested Space
The Park 51 controversy swept like wildfire through the media in late August of 2010, fueled by Islamophobes who oppose all advance of Islam in America. Yet the controversy also resonated with many who were clearly not caught up in the fear of Islam. This article attempts to understand the broader concern that the Park 51 project would somehow violate the Ground Zero site, and, thus, as a sign of "respect" should be moved to a different location,…
Space, place, and religious meaning
"Space, place, and religious meaning." Material Religion, 3(2), pp. 277–278
Picturing Faith
Material expression and maternalism in mary baker eddy?s boston churches
This article examines the material culture of Christian Science, focusing on the architecture of Mary Baker Eddy's churches in Boston. It argues that Eddy's material choices, particularly in the construction and decoration of her churches, were not simply pragmatic but reflected a complex interplay between her theology of Mind and the prevailing cultural norms of maternalism. The article explores how Eddy used materiality to negotiate the tension…
When Church Became Theatre
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 a…
Building Community, Keeping the Faith
The 'Predominance of the Feminine' at Chautauqua
The Spectacle of Freemasonry
Theatre of the Fraternity: Staging the Ritual Space of The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry 1896-1929, at the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., 5 Oct. 1996-5 Jan. 1997; Kent State University Museum, Kent, Ohio, 5 Feb.-15 June 1997; Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Mass., 27 July 1997-1 Feb. 1998; California State University, Long Beach, Calif., 10 Mar.-26 Apr. 1998; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, N. D., 4 June-6 S…
The Park 51/Ground Zero Controversy and Sacred Sites as Contested Space
The Park 51 controversy swept like wildfire through the media in late August of 2010, fueled by Islamophobes who oppose all advance of Islam in America. Yet the controversy also resonated with many who were clearly not caught up in the fear of Islam. This article attempts to understand the broader concern that the Park 51 project would somehow violate the Ground Zero site, and, thus, as a sign of "respect" should be moved to a different location,…
Material expression and maternalism in mary baker eddy?s boston churches
This article examines the material culture of Christian Science, focusing on the architecture of Mary Baker Eddy's churches in Boston. It argues that Eddy's material choices, particularly in the construction and decoration of her churches, were not simply pragmatic but reflected a complex interplay between her theology of Mind and the prevailing cultural norms of maternalism. The article explores how Eddy used materiality to negotiate the tension…
Creating the Multifaith Chapel, 1938-1955
Interfaith or multifaith chapels are so ubiquitous now in the United States-present in colleges and universities, hospitals, shopping malls, and airports-that their development as a distinct architectural form is often taken for granted. Yet that development in the mid-twentieth century was complex and even fraught. Taking a religious studies approach, this article examines the development of three early examples-the Chapel of the Four Chaplains,…
Protestant Theologies and the Problem of Sacred Space
The phrase sacred space, suggesting a spiritually evocative environment infused with divine or transcendent presence, is currently applied to almost all religious places, including almost all Christian churches and chapels. Yet Protestant leaders from the Reformation onward vigorously opposed such an understanding of God's relationship to humanly created worship space. For them, God was not immanent in specific spaces or buildings. How is it that…
Salvation with a Smile
In Salvation with a Smile Phillip Luke Sinitiere sets out to explicate the “historical significance and cultural meaning of Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church” within the context of American Christianity (p. 5). He achieves an engaging illumination of the path that led to the astounding success of the man he unabashedly calls the “most powerful twenty-first century evangelical minister” and the church he sees as “America's most consequential congreg…
When Church Became Theatre
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 a…
The 'Predominance of the Feminine' at Chautauqua
The Spectacle of Freemasonry
Theatre of the Fraternity: Staging the Ritual Space of The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry 1896-1929, at the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., 5 Oct. 1996-5 Jan. 1997; Kent State University Museum, Kent, Ohio, 5 Feb.-15 June 1997; Museum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, Mass., 27 July 1997-1 Feb. 1998; California State University, Long Beach, Calif., 10 Mar.-26 Apr. 1998; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, N. D., 4 June-6 S…
Building Community, Keeping the Faith
The 'Predominance of the Feminine' at Chautauqua
When Church Became Theatre
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 a…
Material expression and maternalism in mary baker eddy?s boston churches
This article examines the material culture of Christian Science, focusing on the architecture of Mary Baker Eddy's churches in Boston. It argues that Eddy's material choices, particularly in the construction and decoration of her churches, were not simply pragmatic but reflected a complex interplay between her theology of Mind and the prevailing cultural norms of maternalism. The article explores how Eddy used materiality to negotiate the tension…
Picturing Faith
Space, place, and religious meaning
"Space, place, and religious meaning." Material Religion, 3(2), pp. 277–278
The Park 51/Ground Zero Controversy and Sacred Sites as Contested Space
The Park 51 controversy swept like wildfire through the media in late August of 2010, fueled by Islamophobes who oppose all advance of Islam in America. Yet the controversy also resonated with many who were clearly not caught up in the fear of Islam. This article attempts to understand the broader concern that the Park 51 project would somehow violate the Ground Zero site, and, thus, as a sign of "respect" should be moved to a different location,…
Tri-Faith America
In 1955, sociologist Will Herberg used the phrase “Protestant, Catholic, Jew” to title his biting assessment of religion in America. By the time he did so, this tri-faith image, in circulation for over two decades, had become a widely embraced description and celebration of religious tolerance and pluralism in the democratic United States. Although the sociological accuracy of the phrase has been sharply questioned since Herberg's use of it, the …
Approaching Religious Space
The study of religious space, both physical and imagined, has advanced significantly in the past two decades, drawing upon theoretical perspectives and analytical methods from several fields, from anthropology and historical studies, to geography and architecture, to social and literary critical theory. Marking a path through this varied landscape of approaches, this essay presents a four-part taxonomy into which most can be classified. The categ…
Protestant Theologies and the Problem of Sacred Space
The phrase sacred space, suggesting a spiritually evocative environment infused with divine or transcendent presence, is currently applied to almost all religious places, including almost all Christian churches and chapels. Yet Protestant leaders from the Reformation onward vigorously opposed such an understanding of God's relationship to humanly created worship space. For them, God was not immanent in specific spaces or buildings. How is it that…
Salvation with a Smile
In Salvation with a Smile Phillip Luke Sinitiere sets out to explicate the “historical significance and cultural meaning of Joel Osteen and Lakewood Church” within the context of American Christianity (p. 5). He achieves an engaging illumination of the path that led to the astounding success of the man he unabashedly calls the “most powerful twenty-first century evangelical minister” and the church he sees as “America's most consequential congreg…
A pril E. H olm . A Kingdom Divided
April E. Holm’s well-researched and compelling book A Kingdom Divided: Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era opens with a quote from Robert Stanton’s 1864 pronouncement laying the blame for the Civil War squarely “at the door of the Church”—specifically on the schisms that split Protestant denominations during the antebellum period. Without endorsing that perspective, Holm convincingly details how an influential “religious …
The Oxford Handbook of Religious Space
How do we understand religious spaces? What is their role or function within specific religious traditions or with respect to religious experience? This handbook brings together thirty-seven authors who address these questions using a range of methods to analyze specific spaces or types of spaces around the world and across time. Their methods are grounded in many disciplines: religious studies and religion, anthropology, archaeology, architectur…
Oxford Handbook of Religious Space
Creating the Multifaith Chapel, 1938-1955
Interfaith or multifaith chapels are so ubiquitous now in the United States-present in colleges and universities, hospitals, shopping malls, and airports-that their development as a distinct architectural form is often taken for granted. Yet that development in the mid-twentieth century was complex and even fraught. Taking a religious studies approach, this article examines the development of three early examples-the Chapel of the Four Chaplains,…
From Sacred and Profane to Spiritual Space
This article offers a brief historical and semantic overview of the twentieth-century development of four key concepts central to the study of religious space—“sacred,” “profane,” “sacred space,” and “spirituality”—with an emphasis on the attendant changes in the general experience of power within Christian churches that accompanied these conceptual revisions. Drawing attention to the positionality of scholars involved in the semantic variations,…
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