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Pilgrimage to the National Parks: Religion and Nature in the United States (Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism) - Tapa dura

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Ross-Bryant, Lynn

 
9780415893800: Pilgrimage to the National Parks: Religion and Nature in the United States (Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism)
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ISBN 10: 0415893801 ISBN 13: 9780415893800
Editorial: Routledge, 2012

Sinopsis

National Parks - ’America’s Best Idea’ - were from the first seen as sacred sites embodying the God-given specialness of American people and American land, and from the first they were also marked as tourist attractions. This book explores the importance of the discourse of nature in American culture, arguing that the attributes and symbolic power that had first been associated with the ’new world’ and then the ’frontier’ were embodied in the National Parks. Author Ross-Bryant focuses on 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. Beyond the specific contribution to a richer analysis of the National Parks and their role in understanding nature and religion in the U.S., this volume contributes to the emerging field of ’religion and the environment,’ larger issues in the study of religion (e.g. cultural events and the spatial element in meaning-making), and the study of non-institutional religion.

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Acerca del autor

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."

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Editorial
Routledge
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0415893801
ISBN 13 
9780415893800
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
326
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