{"product_id":"landscapes-of-the-sacred-9780801868382","title":"Landscapes of the Sacred","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLane's vast array of case studies and allusions in analyzed by a fertile imagination that bounces between ethnolography, iconography, phenomenology, and poetics. A joy to read, this richly footnoted study is mind-boggling in its provocative assertion of the deep mysteries of place-bound identities. Choice This expanded edition of Lane's 1988 book benefits from over a decade of heightened scholarly interest in place and religion. -- Quincy D. Newell Religious Studies Review 2004 Both scholar and pilgrim, Belden Lane provides us a remarkably informed, reflective, personal account of Americans' sense of sacred space. Journal of Cultural Geography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:  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  Notes","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405196763479,"sku":"9780801868382","price":27.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801868382.jpg?v=1730489060","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/landscapes-of-the-sacred-9780801868382","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}