Professor
Richard Kieckhefer
Northwestern University
Theologian; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Religious Studies
Elected
2006
Professor of Religion and History. Working mainly on pre-Reformation Europe, explored the complex interaction of elite and popular (clerical and lay) culture; the relationship between religious ideas and ordinary experience; and the conditions leading to repression of dissent and deviance. Most recently, proposed a new analytical framework for interpreting religious architecture.
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