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

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

Ross-Bryant, Lynn

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Touris

Religion General Environmental Studies

ISBN10: 0415893801
ISBN13: 9780415893800
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 25 2012
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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