LEADER 04373nam 22006735 450 001 9910480508803321 005 20210713022521.0 010 $a1-4798-6526-5 024 7 $a10.18574/9781479865260 035 $a(CKB)3710000000644920 035 $a(EBL)4045268 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001646217 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16414775 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001646217 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14859072 035 $a(PQKB)10850454 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4045268 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001597697 035 $a(OCoLC)946724540 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51723 035 $a(DE-B1597)548226 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781479865260 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000644920 100 $a20200723h20162016 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---uunuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSpirituality and the State $eManaging Nature and Experience in America's National Parks /$fKerry Mitchell 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2016] 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (260 p.) 225 0 $aNorth American religions 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-4798-8641-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tIntroduction --$t1. Establishing National Parks: From Ideal to Institution --$t2. The John Muir Trail: The Properties of Wilderness --$t3. Yosemite National Park: The Spirit of Complexity --$t4. Muir Woods: The Living Cathedral --$t5. Theorizing Religious Individualism --$tConclusion --$tAPPENDIX. Research Methods --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aAn exploration of the production and reception of nature and spirituality in America?s national park system America?s national parks are some of the most powerful, beautiful, and inspiring spots on the earth. They are often considered ?spiritual? places in which one can connect to oneself and to nature. But it takes a lot of work to make nature appear natural. To maintain the apparently pristine landscapes of our parks, the National Park Service must engage in traffic management, landscape design, crowd-diffusing techniques, viewpoint construction, behavioral management, and more?and to preserve the ?spiritual? experience of the park, they have to keep this labor invisible. Spirituality and the State analyzes the way that the state manages spirituality in the parks through subtle, sophisticated, unspoken, and powerful techniques. Following the demands of a secular ethos, park officials have developed strategies that slide under the church/state barrier to facilitate deep connections between visitors and the space, connections that visitors often express as spiritual. Through indirect communication, the design of trails, roads, and vista points, and the management of land, bodies and sense perception, the state invests visitors in a certain way of experiencing reality that is perceived as natural, individual, and authentic. This construction of experience naturalizes the exercise of authority and the historical, social, and political interests that lie behind it. In this way a personal, individual, nature spirituality becomes a public religion of a particularly liberal stripe. Drawing on surveys and interviews with visitors and rangers as well as analyses of park spaces, Spirituality and the State investigates the production and reception of nature and spirituality in America?s national park system. 410 0$aNorth American religions. 606 $aNational parks and reserves$zUnited States 606 $aNature$xReligious aspects 606 $aPilgrims and pilgrimages$zUnited States 606 $aReligion and state$zUnited States 606 $aSacred space$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aNational parks and reserves 615 0$aNature$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aPilgrims and pilgrimages 615 0$aReligion and state 615 0$aSacred space 676 $a201.763680973 700 $aMitchell$b Kerry$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01055701 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480508803321 996 $aSpirituality and the State$92489298 997 $aUNINA