American Sacred Space

by Edward Tabor Linenthal and David Chidester

In a series of pioneering studies, this book examines the creation--and the conflict behind the creation--of sacred space in America. The essays in this volume visit places in America where economic, political, and social forces clash over the sacred and the profane, from wilderness areas in the American West to the Mall in Washington, D.C., and they investigate visions of America as sacred space at home and abroad. Here are the beginnings of a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007YXU0U6
• ISBN13: 9780253210067
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"