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Roadside Religion
Timothy Kandler Beal
其他書名
In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith
出版Beacon Press, 2005
主題History / GeneralReligion / Christian Living / GeneralReligion / HistoryReligion / SpiritualityReligion / FaithReligion / Sacred PlacesSocial Science / Customs & TraditionsSocial Science / Popular Culture
ISBN08070106269780807010624
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IQdxEZ3xr8YC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In the summer of 2002, Timothy K. Beal loaded his family into a twenty-nine-foot-long motor home and hit the rural highways of America in search of roadside religious attractions-sites like the World's Largest Ten Commandments, Golgotha Fun Park, and Precious Moments Chapel. Why, he wanted to know, would someone use miniature golf to tell the story of the Creation? Or build a life-size replica of Noah's ark in Maryland? As a scholar, Beal hoped to come to understand the meaning of these places as expressions of religious imagination and experience. But as someone who had grown up in an evangelical Christian church in which he no longer rested comfortably, Beal found himself driven by a desire to venture beyond the borders of his cynicism to encounter faith in all its awesome absurdity. And so he found himself deep in conversation with people like Bill Rice, whose Cross Garden features thousands of makeshift crosses and old air conditioners bearing the message NO ICE WATER IN HELL! FIRE HOT! Part travel narrative, part religious study, and part search for the divine madness that is faith, Roadside Religion takes the reader on a tour of the strange and often wondrous ways people have tried to give outward form to their inner religious experiences. Religion is most interesting-and most revealing-Beal shows us, where it's least expected.