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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... significance.26 All this interpretive industry , however , suggests that na- ture , in its human meaning and significance , is a cultural product . During the nineteenth century , for example , a romantic naturalism transferred a sacred ...
... significance . Al- though often branded in the media as " terrorists , " radical environmental- ists , such as in the movement known as Earth First !, have resorted to dra- matic rituals of resistance , from civil disobedience to ...
... significance . What has been called a " cult of domesticity " emerged in nineteenth - century America to ritualize human relations be- tween males and females , elders and juniors , family and strangers , and so on . These symbolic ...