Author : Courtney Milne
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,79 MB
Release : 1999-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781556709579
At the dawn of the 1990 autumn equinox, Courtney Milne climbed into the bucket of a hydraulic lift and was hoisted forty feet into the air beside the Big Horn Medicine Wheel in northern Wyoming. From that perspective, it seemed to him as though the Big Horn wheel linked the distant plains with the heavens. And so, the wheel became the starting point of his photographic journey as he followed each spoke across the continent in search of sacred landscapes.
Author : Brad Olsen
Publisher : CCC Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1888729317
World travelers and armchair tourists who want to explore the mythology and archaeology of the ruins, sanctuaries, mountains, lost cities, and temples of ancient civilizations will find this guide ideal. Detailed here are the monuments and sites where ancient peoples once gathered to perform sacred rituals and ceremonies to worship various gods and to achieve spiritual enlightenment. Important archaeological, historical, and geological destinations worldwide are profiled, from the Great Pyramid in Egypt and the Forbidden City in China to the Temples of Angkor in Cambodia and Mount Shasta in California. Sites are described in historical and cultural context, and practical contemporary travel information is provided, including detailed maps, drawings, photographs, and travel directions.
Author : David Chidester
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 1995-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253210067
In a series of pioneering studies, this book examines the creation—and the conflict behind the creation—of sacred space in America. The essays in this volume visit places in America where economic, political, and social forces clash over the sacred and the profane, from wilderness areas in the American West to the Mall in Washington, D.C., and they investigate visions of America as sacred space at home and abroad. Here are the beginnings of a new American religious history—told as the story of the contested spaces it has inhabited. The contributors are David Chidester, Matthew Glass, Edward T. Linenthal, Colleen McDannell, Robert S. Michaelsen, Rowland A. Sherrill, and Bron Taylor.
Author : Stephen Haven
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780984943906
T. R. Hummer says that "Stephen Haven is a poet of incisive discipline deployed in the service of a passionate humanistic ethos. Every word in this collection reflects concern: concern for humanity, and concern for language, humanity's best hope. Global in vision, this worried book is unflinching, yet hopeful, yielding up a world in which 'Your own caesurae, / Your own circumference, / Is the shell of a missing animal. / You pull it tight around you like a cloak. . . . '
Author :
Publisher : CCC Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 35,89 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781888729092
A compilation of 108 spiritual destinations around North America-- medicine wheels, rock art, modern pilgrimage routes, prehistoric earthen pyramids, ancient stone structures, monasteries, shrines, temples, and more.
Author : Brad Olsen
Publisher : CCC Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781888729023
A travel guide to the world's most sacred locales offers travel tips and detailed maps to the Great Pyramid, Easter Island, the Himalayas, Ayers Rock, Chaco Canyon, Jericho, Delphi, Stonehenge, and Mayan ruins, among other sites of spiritual importance. Original.
Author : Brad Olsen
Publisher : CCC Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781888729122
Combining current trends, academic theories, and historical insights, this travel guide brings both lesser-known and famous European spiritual locales into perspective by explaining the significance of each sacred site. The cultural relevance, history, and spirituality of each site—including Stonehenge, the Acropolis, Mont Saint Michel, Pompeii, and Saint Peter’s Basilica—are explained, creating a moving and artistic travel experience. Each destination—with selections spanning more than 15 countries throughout Europe—is accompanied by easy-to-follow maps and directions.
Author : Peter Nabokov
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1440628599
From the author of How the World Moves: A revelatory new look at the hallowed, diverse, and threatened landscapes of the American Indian For thousands of years , Native Americans have told stories about the powers of revered landscapes and sought spiritual direction at mysterious places in their homelands. In this important book, respected scholar and anthropologist Peter Nabokov writes of a wide range of sacred places in Native America. From the “high country” of California to Tennessee’s Tellico Valley, from the Black Hills of South Dakota to Rainbow Canyon in Arizona, each chapter delves into the relationship between Indian cultures and their environments and describes the myths and legends, practices, and rituals that sustained them.
Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 1999-04-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780152020620
With grace and drama, Abenaki poet and author Joseph Bruchac retells ten Native American legends of awe-inspiring landscapes. These wise stories, together with Thomas Locker's luminous paintings, evoke the sacred places above, below, and within us all. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Susan Suntree
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803231989
"Sacred Sites honors the power and beauty of our indigenous heritage and homeland. By knowing our history we better understand the present and our journey into the future."---Anthony Morales, tribal chair, Gabrielino Tongva Council of San Gabriel --
