Pilgrimage to the National Parks: Religion and Nature in the United States

ISBN-13: 9780415893800 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 326 str.

Lynn Ross-Bryant

Opis

This title focuses on American national parks as pilgrimage sites around which a discourse of nature developed and argues the centrality of religion in understanding the dynamics of both the language and the ritual manifestations related to national parks.

Recenzje

"If nature, nation, and God have been three of the most crucial orienting ideas of American history, Lynn Ross-Bryant shows here how this trinity has come together at one of the nation’s distinct forms of sacred space: the national parks. This is a lucid and penetrating analysis of what these places have meant, both for those who have made pigrimages to them over the last century and a half, and for many of those who stayed behind." -- Adrian Ivakhiv, University of Vermont

Spis treści

Introduction: Our National Parks  Part I: The New World  1. Yosemite: New World Sublimity  2. The Dream of Yellowstone: Progress in the Pristine Land  Part II: See America First  3. Seeing America in Grand Canyon and Glacier National Parks  4. The National Park Idea  Part III: Wilderness and Beyond  5. Mythic and Scientific America  6. The Wilderness Idea  7. Unbounded Possibilities  Epilogue: Pilgrimage and the Future of the National Parks  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Lynn Ross-Bryant is Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder. Recent work has been on American nature writers, including "The Land in American Religious Experience" and on the national parks including "Sacred Sites: Nature and Nation in the National Parks" and "Ken Burns and American Mythology in The National Parks: America’s Best Idea."