Landscapes of the sacred : geography and narrative in American spirituality / Belden C. Lane.
Material type: TextPublisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002Edition: Expanded editionDescription: xii, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0801868386 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780801868382 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 291.3/5/0973 21
- BL2525 .L36 2002
- 11.63
- 15.85
- 74.25
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-310).
Introduction: Meaning and place in American spirituality -- Place in American religious life: Axioms for the study of sacred place; Giving voice to place, three models for understanding American sacred space -- Geography of America spiritual traditions: Seeking a sacred center, places and themes in Native American spirituality; Baroque spirituality in New Spain and new France; Puritan reading of the New England landscape; Correspondence of spiritual and material worlds in Shaker spirituality; Precarity and permanence, Dorothy Day and the Catholic worker sense of place -- Method and perspective in studying American spirituality and place: Ephemeral character of place, problems in articulating an American sense of sacred space; Edwards and the spider as symbol, reflections on spirituality as an academic discipline; Imagined landscape, a tension between place and planlessness in Christian spirituality.
This text offers three new interpretive models for understanding American sacred space. Included are essays that explore how Native American, early French and Spanish, Puritan New England, and Catholic Worker traditions expressed the connection between spirituality and place. The book also 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.