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Article: Sacred landscapes and cultural politics: planting a tree.(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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ARNOLD, PHILIP P. & ANN GRODZINS GOLD (eds). Sacred landscapes and cultural politics: planting a tree. xix, 203 pp., illus., bibliogr. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2001. [pounds sterling]40.00 (cloth)
This is a proceeding of a symposium entitled 'Religion/Environment/Action' held at Syracuse University in 1996 to commemorate the centennial of the Department of Religion. The volume consists of three parts.
In part one, Sexton (chap. 1), making use or the mystical and the private, poetically describes America's Nature in entangled visions of iconoclastic Isaac and iconic Elk, wherein she narrates her face-to-face encounter with Moses, who emerges from a ...