Article ID: CBB676117827

An Architecture for the Electronic Church: Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma (2016)

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More than a university, Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was also the headquarters for evangelist Oral Roberts’s electronic church. The electronic church in America, dominated by Christian evangelicals, used technology to spread the Gospel over radio airways and television signals to a dispersed audience. Yet evangelicals like Roberts also constructed ambitious campuses in real space and time. The architecture of Oral Roberts University visualized a modern and “populuxe” image for the electronic church in the 1960s and 1970s. The university’s Prayer Tower purposely alluded to the Seattle Space Needle, aligning religion and the Space Age, and the campus’s white, gold, and black color palette on late modern buildings created an image of aspirational luxury, conveying Roberts’s health and wealth gospel. Oral Roberts University served as a sound stage for Roberts’s radio and television shows, a pilgrimage point for his audience, and a university dedicated to training evangelicals in the electronic church.

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Authors & Contributors
González-García, A. César
Sabine Lenk
Maley, John
Dowdy, F. Andrew
Themis G. Dallas
Maitane Urrutia-Aparicio
Concepts
Technology and religion
Christianity
Cathedrals and churches
Building construction
Architecture
Astronomical chronology
Time Periods
Medieval
20th century, early
19th century
Early modern
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Oklahoma (U.S.)
United States
Spain
Illyricum
Midwestern states (U.S.)
Valencia (Spain)
Institutions
World Council of Churches
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