Foreword to Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality

Authors

Sandra Marie Schneiders, Jesuit School of Theology/Graduate Theological UnionFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

1988

Publisher

Paulist Press

Abstract

The reader of Belden Lane's fascinating study, Landscapes of the Sacred, cannot escape a sense of encountering, in one and the same moment, insights which are both highly original and yet somehow so inevitable that one wonders at not having thought of them before. It is an experience of wandering into new territory and recognizing it as home, which is precisely the experience the book is trying to describe. In that sense, this work is a medium which is its message.

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Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality

Comments

Reprinted with permission.

Recommended Citation

Schneiders, Sandra Marie “Foreword.” To Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality. By Belden C. Lane. New York/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1988.