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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... possible futures for America . In this re- spect , memory of the past might produce the space of the future . The last two essays investigate symbolic or mythic orientations towards the meaning and power of America as a whole . That ...
... possible long - term effects , Mandela's visit raised the possibility of reviving the social activism and aspirations of the civil rights move- ment . Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. , executive director of the Commission for Racial Justice of ...
... possible under earlier , far different religious and cultural warrants and conditions.21 Edward Tabor Linenthal's Sacred Ground , elaborating a pattern of American veneration of historic battle- fields , provokes attention to the ...