Jeanne Halgren Kilde is the Director of the Religious Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on religious space and architecture, which she locates within social, cultural, and religious contexts. She is the author of several publications in this area, including When Church Became Theatre: The Transformation of Evangelical Architecture and Worship; and Sacred Power, Sacred Space: An Introduction to Christian Architecture. Kilde was a founding member and co-chair of the Space, Place and Religious Meaning program unit of the American Academy of Religion.