Product Description: In Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces, Jon Pahl looks at the American tendency to assign sacred function to secular spaces from Disneyland to the neighborhood shopping mall. This spatial theology can work to our benefit, but often it poses spiritual risks...read more

Product Description: Examines the ritual construction of sacred space on multiple spatial scales as practiced by the Fraternity of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. This study includes a history of Freemasonry and illustrations of the separation of Masonic space on larger scales, namely the Masonic Temples...read more

Profiles sixteen locations of sacred relevance to Native Americans, explaining how each site reflects the diversity of a unique Native American culture, in a volume that covers such areas as Tennessee's Tellico Valley, Rainbow Canyon in Arizona, and the high country of northwestern California. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

A unique guide explores the ins and outs of places filled with spiritual meaning and purpose in the United States--from a small adobe chapel in Chimayo, New Mexico, to packed football stadiums at a Billy Graham Crusade--and explains why Americans search for holiness in their own backyard. Original.

Product Description: This volume examines a diverse set of spaces and buildings seen through the lens of popular practice and belief to shed light on the complexities of sacred space in America. Contributors explore how dedication sermons document shifting understandings of the meeting house in early 19th-century Connecticut; the changes in evangelical church architecture during the same century and what that tells us about evangelical religious life; the impact of contemporary issues on Catholic church architecture; the impact of globalization on the construction of traditional sacred spaces; the urban practice of Jewish space; nature worship and Central Park in New York; the mezuzah and domestic sacred space; and, finally, the spiritual aspects of African American yard art...read more

From rock art in New Mexico to a recently uncovered shaman's cave in the Mojave, this loving tribute to Native American spirituality documents U.S. sites considered sacred by Indian people.

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