Landscapes of the Secular - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscapes of the Secular write by Nicolas Howe. This book was released on 2016-09-05. Landscapes of the Secular available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Chapter 3 has been revised and expanded from a previously published article by Nicolas Howe, "Thou Shalt Not Misinterpret: Landscape as Legal Performance," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, April 15, 2008."
Landscapes of the Secular
Landscapes of the Secular - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Landscapes of the Secular write by Nicolas Howe. This book was released on 2016-09-05. Landscapes of the Secular available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?” asks Nicolas Howe at the outset of this innovative, ambitious, and wide-ranging book. It’s a surprising question because of what it implies: we usually aren’t seeing American landscapes through a non-religious lens, but rather as inflected by complicated, little-examined concepts of the sacred. Fusing geography, legal scholarship, and religion in a potent analysis, Howe shows how seemingly routine questions about how to look at a sunrise or a plateau or how to assess what a mountain is both physically and ideologically, lead to complex arguments about the nature of religious experience and its implications for our lives as citizens. In American society—nominally secular but committed to permitting a diversity of religious beliefs and expressions—such questions become all the more fraught and can lead to difficult, often unsatisfying compromises regarding how to interpret and inhabit our public lands and spaces. A serious commitment to secularism, Howe shows, forces us to confront the profound challenges of true religious diversity in ways that often will have their ultimate expression in our built environment. This provocative exploration of some of the fundamental aspects of American life will help us see the land, law, and society anew.
Urban Landscapes
Urban Landscapes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Landscapes write by P. J. Larkham. This book was released on 2013-08-21. Urban Landscapes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taking a multidisciplinary approach this addresses the academic and practical issues concerning the present and future of the built environment, arguing for its enlightened management in the future of our present-day environment.
Race and Secularism in America
Race and Secularism in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Race and Secularism in America write by Jonathon S. Kahn. This book was released on 2016-03-01. Race and Secularism in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This anthology draws bold comparisons between secularist strategies to contain, privatize, and discipline religion and the treatment of racialized subjects by the American state. Specializing in history, literature, anthropology, theology, religious studies, and political theory, contributors expose secularism's prohibitive practices in all facets of American society and suggest opportunities for change.
Apocalyptic Geographies
Apocalyptic Geographies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Apocalyptic Geographies write by Jerome Tharaud. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Apocalyptic Geographies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How nineteenth-century Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to shape American culture In nineteenth-century America, "apocalypse" referred not to the end of the world but to sacred revelation, and "geography" meant both the physical landscape and its representation in printed maps, atlases, and pictures. In Apocalyptic Geographies, Jerome Tharaud explores how white Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to present the antebellum landscape as a “sacred space” of spiritual pilgrimage, and how devotional literature influenced secular society in important and surprising ways. Reading across genres and media—including religious tracts and landscape paintings, domestic fiction and missionary memoirs, slave narratives and moving panoramas—Apocalyptic Geographies illuminates intersections of popular culture, the physical spaces of an expanding and urbanizing nation, and the spiritual narratives that ordinary Americans used to orient their lives. Placing works of literature and visual art—from Thomas Cole’s The Oxbow to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden—into new contexts, Tharaud traces the rise of evangelical media, the controversy and backlash it engendered, and the role it played in shaping American modernity.
