American Sacred SpaceDavid Chidester, Edward T. Linenthal Indiana University Press, 22. nov. 1995 - 352 sider In a series of pioneering studies, this book examines the creation—and the conflict behind the creation—of sacred space in America. The essays in this volume visit places in America where economic, political, and social forces clash over the sacred and the profane, from wilderness areas in the American West to the Mall in Washington, D.C., and they investigate visions of America as sacred space at home and abroad. Here are the beginnings of a new American religious history—told as the story of the contested spaces it has inhabited. |
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... desecrated . In general , desecration can take two forms , defilement or dispossession . In the first case , desecration registers as a violation of the ritual order through which the purity of a sacred place is maintained . While most ...
... Desecration of Earth Earth First ! ers perceive many forms of human - caused defilement , in- cluding commercial developments ( and the accompanying pavement ) ; most forms of tourism ( following Abbey , especially industrial tourism in ...
... desecration . As Hills resi- dent Maude Hoover wrote Robinson , " Why should we add to , or rather , desecrate , the work of nature with the puny work of man ? What if we do have a great cliff face ' with nothing on it ' among those ...