Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality - Brossura

Lane, Belden C. C.

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ISBN 10: 0801868386 ISBN 13: 9780801868382

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"Lane offers an essay tour that is also a tour de force."

(Catherine L. Albanese Horizons)

"Clearly written and grounded in far-ranging scholarship... Anyone interested in American history and, more specifically, with American spirituality will be deeply enriched by studying (not just reading) this brilliant text."

(Most Rev. Robert F. Morneau, auxiliary bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin St. Anthony Messenger)

"Read Belden Lane's book and you will encounter your own desire for that elusive sacred country where the ordinary world changes from the moment to the eternal, where opposites are reconciled and all things are drawn to the center in an irresistible confluence."

(Ruth M. Slickman Review for Religious)

"[Lane] points to things I have quietly suspected, though never have been able to articulate... For a culture obsessed with time and time management, Lane's study is a quiet reminder of the formative effect of space."

(George R. Graham Weavings)

"Landscapes of the Sacred is primarily a work in Christian spirituality, but it also ranges over religious traditions, literary landscapes, and personal experiences, illuminating a path to deeper understanding of the sacred meanings attached to places. This is no shallow synthesis. By constantly attending to concrete descriptions of places, and the tensions and contraductions that arise in the interpretation of sacred space, Lane provides direction for anyone seeking to understand this issue."

(Timothy Hessel-Robinson ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment)

Recensione:

"Lane'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)

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

(Journal of Cultural Geography)

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0801868386
• ISBN 13: 9780801868382
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 328