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- catalog abstract ""In this 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 interests 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, an "otherness" that alternately reveals and conceals itself behind a pageant 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 of the sociology of religious movements and pilgrimage. Non-specialist readers can explore the cultural, ecological, and spiritual dimensions of these extraordinary natural landscapes."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12010407.
- catalog coverage "Glastonbury (England) Religion.".
- catalog coverage "Sedona (Ariz.) Religion.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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 of the sociology of religious movements and pilgrimage. Non-specialist readers can explore the cultural, ecological, and spiritual dimensions of these extraordinary natural landscapes."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""In this 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."".
- catalog description ""Ivakhiv sees these contested and "heterotopic" landscapes as the nexus of a complex web of interests 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, an "otherness" that alternately reveals and conceals itself behind a pageant of beliefs, images, and place-myths."".
- catalog description "1. Departures. 1. Power and Desire in Earth's Tangled Web. 2. Reimagining Earth. 3. Orchestrating Sacred Space -- 2. Glastonbury. 4. Stage, Props, and Players of Avalon. 5. Many Glastonburys: Place-Myths and Contested Spaces -- 3. Sedona. 6. Red Rocks to Real Estate. 7. Vortexes and Crossed Currents: Sedona's Multichannel Wilderness -- 4. Arrivals. 8. Practices of Place: Nature, Heterotopia, and the Postmodern Sacred.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-316) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 326 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0253338999 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bloomington : Indiana University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Arizona Sedona.".
- catalog spatial "England Glastonbury.".
- catalog spatial "Glastonbury (England) Religion.".
- catalog spatial "Sedona (Ariz.) Religion.".
- catalog subject "291.3/5 21".
- catalog subject "BL980.G7 .I83 2001".
- catalog subject "New Age movement Arizona Sedona.".
- catalog subject "New Age movement England Glastonbury.".
- catalog subject "Sacred space Arizona Sedona.".
- catalog subject "Sacred space England Glastonbury.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Departures. 1. Power and Desire in Earth's Tangled Web. 2. Reimagining Earth. 3. Orchestrating Sacred Space -- 2. Glastonbury. 4. Stage, Props, and Players of Avalon. 5. Many Glastonburys: Place-Myths and Contested Spaces -- 3. Sedona. 6. Red Rocks to Real Estate. 7. Vortexes and Crossed Currents: Sedona's Multichannel Wilderness -- 4. Arrivals. 8. Practices of Place: Nature, Heterotopia, and the Postmodern Sacred.".
- catalog title "Claiming sacred ground : pilgrims and politics at Glastonbury and Sedona / Adrian J. Ivakhiv.".
- catalog type "text".