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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... environments in America . As Neil Smith has observed , wilderness and wildlife areas , such as Yellow- stone or Yosemite , are " produced environments in every conceivable sense . " They are " neatly packaged cultural experiences of ...
... environment that reveals the contested character of sacred space throughout America . The next two essays explore the symbolic and material construction of two built environments , the Christian home and the Holocaust Memorial Museum ...
... environments , gendered differences might be observed . Based on an analysis of literary texts , Annette Kolodny has argued that the " rape " of the environment , and the violence of the frontier , in which people , land , and landscape ...