Belden C. Lane is the Hotfelder Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University.

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 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

• 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

Belden C. Lane is the Hotfelder Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University.

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 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

• 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

Belden C. Lane is the Hotfelder Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University.

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 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

• 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