From the Book - Expanded ed.
Introduction: Meaning and place in American spirituality
Place in American religious life: Axioms for the study of sacred place; Giving voice to place, three models for understanding American sacred space
Geography of America spiritual traditions: Seeking a sacred center, places and themes in Native American spirituality; Baroque spirituality in New Spain and new France; Puritan reading of the New England landscape; Correspondence of spiritual and material worlds in Shaker spirituality; Precarity and permanence, Dorothy Day and the Catholic worker sense of place
Method and perspective in studying American spirituality and place: Ephemeral character of place, problems in articulating an American sense of sacred space; Edwards and the spider as symbol, reflections on spirituality as an academic discipline; Imagined landscape, a tension between place and planlessness in Christian spirituality.
