Preface to the
Johns Hopkins Edition
Introduction:
Meaning and Place in American Spirituality
Part 1:
Place in American Religious Life
Chapter 1:
Axioms for the Study of Sacred Place
Chapter 2:
Giving Voice to Place: Three Models for Understanding American Sacred Space
Part 2: The
Geography of American Spiritual Traditions
Mythic
Landscapes: The Ordinary as
Mask of 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:
A Tension
between Place and Placelessness in Christian Spirituality
Notes
