David Chidester

American Sacred Space - Religion in North America David Chidester

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents:1. Introduction, by David Chidester and Edward T. Linenthal2. Dirt in the Courtroom: Indian Land Claims and American "Property Rights," by Robert S. Michaelsen3. Resacralizing Earth: Pagan Environmentalism and the Restoration of Turtle Island, by Bron Taylor4. "Alexanders All": Symbols of Conquest and Resistance at Mount Rushmore, by Matthew Glass5. Creating the Christian Home: Home schooling in Contemporary America, by ColleenMcDannell6. Locating Holocaust Memory: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, by Edward T. Linenthal7. "A Big Wind Blew Up During the Night": America as Sacred Space in South Africa, by David Chidester8. American Sacred Space and the contest of History, by Rowland A. SherrillBiographical Note: DAVID CHIDESTER is Professor of Comparative Religion and Director of the Institute for Comparative Religion in Southern Africa at the University of Cape Town. His recent books include Shots in the Streets: Violence and Religion in South Africa and Word and Light: Seeing, Hearing, and Religious Discourse. EDWARD T. LINENTHAL is Professor of Religion and American Culture at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and author of Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields and Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum. Publisher Marketing: In a series of pioneering studies, this book examines the creation -- and the conflict behind the creation -- of sacred space in America. These essays visit places in America where ecnomic, political, and social forces clash over the sacred and the profane.

Contributor Bio:  Chidester, David David Chidester is Professor of Comparative Religion at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, author of "Christianity: A Global History "(2000), "Savage Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern Africa "(1996), and "Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown "(revised edition, 2003), and coeditor of "American Sacred Space "(1995). "Savage Systems "and "Salvation and Suicide "are winners of the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in Religious Studies. Contributor Bio:  Linenthal, Edward Tabor Edward T. Linenthal is Edward M. Penson Professor of Religion and American Culture at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. He is the author of Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields and Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum, and co-editor of History Wars: TheEnola Gay and Other Battles to Preserve America's Past.