Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality
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. NewellReligious Studies Review)Both scholar and pilgrim, Belden Lane provides us a remarkably informed, reflective, personal account of Americans' sense of sacred space.(Journal of Cultural Geography)