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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... sacred place was a conquest of space . Second , we can observe that Van der Leeuw consistently linked sacred space with a politics of property . A sacred place was not merely a meaning- ful place ; it was a powerful place because it was ...
... sites of Mormon sacred geog- raphy have all comprised different spatial networks of " nodal points " in the production of alternative religious orientations in American space . Extending the interpretation of specific sites , many other ...
... place " in the sacralization process and that " to interpret the meaning of places ... is to interpret the subjective meaning of persons . " 3 As a locus of meaning , Yi - Fu Tuan ... Sacred Space and the Contest of History 8 sensations 316.