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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... involved and which in the case of land in America is rooted in " discovery " of the land by some European monarch or designee . Hence the survey provides a foundation for conversion to a legal document , a written instrument symbolizing ...
... involved land cessions . But , as one observer has remarked , " it would be difficult , indeed , to find a land cession made by the Indians entirely of their own volition . " 97 Through these trea- ties and some additional agreements ...
... involved the state of Maine , the United States government , and several lumber companies with large timber holdings ... involved in the initial land negotiations about which the Indians were pleading , it had to be involved in some way ...