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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... experience . By focus- ing upon the land and the environment , the religious home and the com- memorative museum ... experience . American historical experience has shaped the production of sacred space in America in distinctive ways ...
... experiences of interspecies communication occur , or where one experiences a pantheistic sense that the entire earth is alive and sacred . Recalling in 1968 an earlier experience while working on a trail crew in Yosemite National Park ...
... experience what might be the extraor- dinary character of the place , the tour is prepackaged by the National Parks Service , which manipulates or dictates just how the experience is to be entered and , indeed , even understood ...