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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... patriotic faith.3 Tourist pilgrims come to pay their respects , but also to buy such relics as T - shirts , books , slides , videotapes , maps , and photographs , illus- trating a " venerative consumption " that enables visitors to take ...
... patriotic expression remains nonpartisan . Pearson's own controversial world federalist prespective is proof that various politi- cal viewpoints can emerge in the course of such ceremonies . Thus it is not politics per se that produces ...
... patriotic spirit which is enshrined at Mount Rushmore differs from partisan politics or ideologies , at least within the framework of the dominant American culture . Americans used Rushmore to mobilize for the Cold War , for instance ...