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Pilgrimage to the National Parks : Religion and Nature in the United States.
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. The inherent tensions between these two realities ensured the pa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pilgrimage to the National ParksReligion and Nature in the United States; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Our National Parks; Religion; The Nature of Nature; Pilgrimage and Tourism; Myth and Ritual; Contestation and Heterogeneity; Storied Sacred Space; The Evolution of the National Parks as Pilgrimage Sites; America's Best Idea; Part IThe New World; Introduction to Part I: America Comes of Age; 1 Yosemite: New World Sublimity; The Newness of the New World; The American Experience in Yosemite; The Art of Perception; Preserved for the People
- 2 The Dream of Yellowstone: Progress in the Pristine LandWonderland; The Tools of Art and Science in the Construction of Yellowstone; Civilizing Nature; Nature and Technology; Part IIWilderness and Beyond; Introduction to Part II: The Age of Anxiety; 3 Seeing America in Grand Canyon and Glacier National Parks; Creating the "Titan of Chasms"; Living Ruins; The Great Unknown; Pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Ages; Preservation and Conquest in Glacier National Park; Reenacting the Strenuuous Life; Construction of a Frontier; The Glacier Pilgrimage; Indians and the National Parks
- 4 The National Park IdeaPrelude to the Establishment of the National Park Service; Selling the National Park Idea; A Second Origin Story; Automobile Pilgrimage-An Alternative Narrative; Rituals of the Pilgrimage: America around the Campfire; Part IIICompeting Constructions of Wilderness; Introduction to Part III: Competing Constructions of Wilderness; 5 Mythic and Scientific America; "Laboratory Out-of-doors"; Emergence of Alternative Narratives; The Culmination of the Mather-Albright Tradition; Change and Tradition in the Parks; Preservation "for the People"; 6 The Wilderness Idea
- Wilderness BeginningsMythic America: Wilderness as Eden and the Frontier; Ansel Adams' Photography and the Religion of Nature; Rethinking Nature and Humans; 7 Unbounded Possibilities; Reconceptualization of Space; A New Role for Science; Imagining Ecosystems; Alaska: Inhabited Wilderness; Reimagining Nature and Culture; Epilogue: Pilgrimage and the Future of the National Parks; Change in Paradise; The Dynamics of Change; A Vision for the Future; Pilgrimage in the Gaps; Notes; Bibliography; Index