Landscapes of the Sacred

<p>This substantially expanded edition of Belden C. Lane's <em>Landscapes of the Sacred</em> includes a new introductory chapter that offers three new interpretive models for understanding American sacred space. Lane maintains his approach of interspersing shorter and more personal pieces among full-length essays that explore how Native American early French and Spanish Puritan New England and Catholic Worker traditions has each expressed the connection between spirituality and place.<br />A new section at the end of the book includes three chapters that address methodological issues in the study of spirituality the symbol-making process of religious experience and the tension between place and placelessness in Christian spirituality.</p>