Landscapes of the Secular: Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space

by Nicolas Howe

"What does it mean to see the American landscape in a secular way?" asks Nicolas Howe at the outset of this innovative, ambitious, and wide-ranging book. It's a surprising question because of what it implies: we usually aren't seeing American landscapes through a non-religious lens, but rather as inflected by complicated, little-examined concepts of the sacred.
Fusing geography, legal scholarship, and religion in a potent analysis, Howe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022637677X
• ISBN13: 9780226376776
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"