Pilgrimage to the national parks : religion and nature in the United States / / Lynn Ross-Bryant |
Autore | Ross-Bryant Lynn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.6/80978 |
Collana | Routledge studies in religion, travel, and tourism |
Soggetto topico |
National parks and reserves - Social aspects - United States - History
National parks and reserves - West (U.S.) - History Nature - Religious aspects - History Pilgrims and pilgrimages - United States - History Wilderness areas - United States - History Sacred space - United States - History National characteristics, American - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-203-09446-8
1-283-84447-8 1-136-20726-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Pilgrimage 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
2 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 4 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 Wilderness 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462717103321 |
Ross-Bryant Lynn | ||
New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pilgrimage to the national parks : religion and nature in the United States / / Lynn Ross-Bryant |
Autore | Ross-Bryant Lynn |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.6/80978 |
Collana | Routledge studies in religion, travel, and tourism |
Soggetto topico |
National parks and reserves - Social aspects - United States - History
National parks and reserves - West (U.S.) - History Nature - Religious aspects - History Pilgrims and pilgrimages - United States - History Wilderness areas - United States - History Sacred space - United States - History National characteristics, American - History |
ISBN |
1-136-20725-2
0-203-09446-8 1-283-84447-8 1-136-20726-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Pilgrimage 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
2 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 4 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 Wilderness 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786302103321 |
Ross-Bryant Lynn | ||
New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pilgrimage to the national parks : religion and nature in the United States / / Lynn Ross-Bryant |
Autore | Ross-Bryant Lynn |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 p.) |
Disciplina | 363.6/80978 |
Collana | Routledge studies in religion, travel, and tourism |
Soggetto topico |
National parks and reserves - Social aspects - United States - History
National parks and reserves - West (U.S.) - History Nature - Religious aspects - History Pilgrims and pilgrimages - United States - History Wilderness areas - United States - History Sacred space - United States - History National characteristics, American - History |
ISBN |
1-136-20725-2
0-203-09446-8 1-283-84447-8 1-136-20726-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Pilgrimage 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
2 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 4 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 Wilderness 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821490303321 |
Ross-Bryant Lynn | ||
New York, : Routledge, 2013 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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