LEADER 05437oam 2200793I 450 001 9910786302103321 005 20230126210045.0 010 $a1-136-20725-2 010 $a0-203-09446-8 010 $a1-283-84447-8 010 $a1-136-20726-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203094464 035 $a(CKB)2670000000298904 035 $a(EBL)1075169 035 $a(OCoLC)821175656 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000783979 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11464997 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783979 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10760447 035 $a(PQKB)10002865 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1075169 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1075169 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10630921 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL415697 035 $a(OCoLC)819136825 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB135227 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000298904 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPilgrimage to the national parks $ereligion and nature in the United States /$fLynn Ross-Bryant 210 1$aNew York, N.Y. :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (327 p.) 225 0 $aRoutledge studies in religion, travel, and tourism ;$v1 300 $a"Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso. 311 $a1-138-10933-9 311 $a0-415-89380-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPilgrimage to the National ParksReligion and Nature in the United States; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Our National Parks; Religion; The Nature of Nature; Pilgrimage and Tourism; Myth and Ritual; Contestation and Heterogeneity; Storied Sacred Space; The Evolution of the National Parks as Pilgrimage Sites; America's Best Idea; Part IThe New World; Introduction to Part I: America Comes of Age; 1 Yosemite: New World Sublimity; The Newness of the New World; The American Experience in Yosemite; The Art of Perception; Preserved for the People 327 $a2 The Dream of Yellowstone: Progress in the Pristine LandWonderland; The Tools of Art and Science in the Construction of Yellowstone; Civilizing Nature; Nature and Technology; Part IIWilderness and Beyond; Introduction to Part II: The Age of Anxiety; 3 Seeing America in Grand Canyon and Glacier National Parks; Creating the "Titan of Chasms"; Living Ruins; The Great Unknown; Pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Ages; Preservation and Conquest in Glacier National Park; Reenacting the Strenuuous Life; Construction of a Frontier; The Glacier Pilgrimage; Indians and the National Parks 327 $a4 The National Park IdeaPrelude to the Establishment of the National Park Service; Selling the National Park Idea; A Second Origin Story; Automobile Pilgrimage-An Alternative Narrative; Rituals of the Pilgrimage: America around the Campfire; Part IIICompeting Constructions of Wilderness; Introduction to Part III: Competing Constructions of Wilderness; 5 Mythic and Scientific America; "Laboratory Out-of-doors"; Emergence of Alternative Narratives; The Culmination of the Mather-Albright Tradition; Change and Tradition in the Parks; Preservation "for the People"; 6 The Wilderness Idea 327 $aWilderness BeginningsMythic America: Wilderness as Eden and the Frontier; Ansel Adams' Photography and the Religion of Nature; Rethinking Nature and Humans; 7 Unbounded Possibilities; Reconceptualization of Space; A New Role for Science; Imagining Ecosystems; Alaska: Inhabited Wilderness; Reimagining Nature and Culture; Epilogue: Pilgrimage and the Future of the National Parks; Change in Paradise; The Dynamics of Change; A Vision for the Future; Pilgrimage in the Gaps; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aNational Parks - 'America's Best Idea' - were from the first seen as sacred sites embodying the God-given specialness of American people and American land, and from the first they were also marked as tourist attractions. The inherent tensions between these two realities ensured the parks would be stages where the country's conflicting values would be performed and contested. As pilgrimage sites embody the values and beliefs of those who are drawn to them, so Americans could travel to these sacred places to honor, experience, and be restored by the powers that had created the American 606 $aNational parks and reserves$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aNational parks and reserves$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 606 $aNature$xReligious aspects$xHistory 606 $aPilgrims and pilgrimages$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aWilderness areas$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSacred space$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aNational characteristics, American$xHistory 615 0$aNational parks and reserves$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aNational parks and reserves$xHistory. 615 0$aNature$xReligious aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aPilgrims and pilgrimages$xHistory. 615 0$aWilderness areas$xHistory. 615 0$aSacred space$xHistory. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American$xHistory. 676 $a363.6/80978 700 $aRoss-Bryant$b Lynn.$01537783 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786302103321 996 $aPilgrimage to the national parks$93787307 997 $aUNINA