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9780801868382 Academic Inspection Copy

Landscapes of the Sacred

Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality
  • ISBN-13: 9780801868382
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Belden C. Lane
  • Price: AUD $80.99
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  • Local release date: 14/01/2002
  • Format: Paperback 328 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Religion & beliefs [HR]
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This substantially expanded edition of Belden C. Lane's Landscapes of the Sacred includes a new introductory chapter that offers three new interpretive models for understanding American sacred space. Lane maintains his approach of interspersing shorter and more personal pieces among full-length essays that explore how Native American, early French and Spanish, Puritan New England, and Catholic Worker traditions has each expressed the connection between spirituality and place. A new section at the end of the book includes three chapters that address methodological issues in the study of spirituality, the symbol-making process of religious experience, and the tension between place and placelessness in Christian spirituality.


Contents:

Preface to the Johns Hopkins Edition

Introduction: Place and Meaning in American Spirituality



Part 1: Place in American Religious Life

Chapter 1: Axioms for the Study of Sacred Place

Chapter 2: Giving Voice to the Place: Three Models for Understanding American Sacred Space



Part 2: The Geography of American Spiritual Traditions

Mythic Landscapes: The Ordinary as Mask for the Holy

Chapter 3: Seeking a Sacred Center: Places and Themes in Native American Spirituality

Mythic Landscapes: The Mountain That Was God

Chapter 4: Baroque Spirituality in New Spain and New France

Mythic Landscapes: The Desert Imagination of Edward Abbey

Chapter 5: The Puritan Reading of the New England Landscape

Mythic Landscapes: Galesville, Wisconsin: Locus Mirabilis

Chapter 6: The Correspondence of Spiritual and Material Worlds in Shaker Spirituality

Mythic Landscapes: Liminal Places in the Evangelical Revival

Chapter 7: Precarity and Permanence: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Sense of Place

Part 3: Method and Perspective in Studying American Spirituality and Place

Chapter 8: The Ephemeral Character of Place: Problems in Articulating an American Sense of Sacred Space

Chapter 9: Edwards and the Spider as Symbol: Reflections on Spirituality as an Academic Discipline

Chapter 10: The Imagined Landscape: The Tension between Place and Placelessness in Christian Spirituality

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""Both scholar and pilgrim, Belden Lane provides us a remarkably informed, reflective, personal account of Americans' sense of sacred space.""

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