Claiming Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Politics at Glastonbury and Sedona Contributor(s): Ivakhiv, Adrian J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0253338999 ISBN-13: 9780253338990 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $30.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2001 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Body, Mind & Spirit | Gaia & Earth Energies - Religion | Mysticism - Religion | Spirituality |
Dewey: 291.35 |
LCCN: 00050639 |
Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.44 lbs) 344 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Geographic Orientation - Arizona - Religious Orientation - New Age - Topical - New Age - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Claiming Sacred Ground Adrian J. Ivakhiv A study of people and politics at two New Age spiritual sites. In this richly textured account, Adrian Ivakhiv focuses on the activities of pilgrim-migrants to Glastonbury, England and Sedona, Arizona. He discusses their efforts to encounter and experience the spirit or energy of the land and to mark out its significance by investing it with sacred meanings. Their endeavors are presented against a broad canvas of cultural and environmental struggles associated with the incorporation of such geographically marginal places into an expanding global cultural economy. Ivakhiv sees these contested and heterotopic landscapes as the nexus of a complex web of interestes and longings: from millennial anxieties and nostalgic re-imaginings of history and prehistory; to real-estate power grabs; contending religious visions; and the free play of ideas from science, pseudo-science, and popular culture. Looming over all this is the nonhuman life of these landscapes, anotherness that alternately reveals and conceals itself behind a pagenant of beliefs, images, and place-myths. A significant contribution to scholarship on alternative spirituality, sacred space, and the politics of natural landscapes, Claiming Sacred Ground will interest scholars and students of environmental and cultural studies, and the sociology of religious movements and pilgrimage. Non-specialist readers will be stimulated by the cultural, ecological, and spiritual dimensions of extraordinary natural landscapes. Adrian Ivakhiv teaches in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto, and is President of the Environmental Studies Association of Canada.
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