Landscapes of the sacred : geography and narrative in American 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 Notes