Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces Putting God in Place

Name: Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces Putting God in Place
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ISBN: 9781606083970

ISBN-10: 160608397X

ISBN-13: 9781606083970

Edition: N/A

Authors: Jon Pahl

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List price: $37.00
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 12/29/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Introduction



Discovering God



Does God Wear Clothes?


The Fashion System


Fashions for God


Clothing God and Human Suffering



Seeking Sacred Places


Letting Be and Taking Place


Two Films: The Christian Problem


Poetics, Politics, and Pilgrims



The Shopping Mall as "Stairway to Heaven," Leading Nowhere


The Religion of the Market


Shopping Malls as Sacred Places


True Shopping? Pilgrimage to the Mall of America



Worshiping the Golden Mouse: Walt Disney World and American Civil Religion


A Mickey Mouse Mecca


The "Magic" Unveiled: Selling Denials of Death


"Magic" as Control: The Inevitable Failure of Corporate Reassurance



Private Possessions: American Domestic Religion and the Suburban Household


American Domestic Religion


The Demons of Tidiness and Toro


The Public Shame of Private Theologies



God Naked: The Violence of Banality and the Crisis of Affordable Housing in America


The Desire to Acquire


The Violence of Banality


The Crisis of Affordable Housing in America



God's Clothing



Living Waters


The Waters of Eden


The Flood of Justice


Clothed with Compassion



The Light of the World


The Energy of Grace


The Refiner's Fire


The Color of Wisdom



The Rock of Salvation


Permanent Gift


The Challenge, Temptation, and Task of Being "Landed"


Wonderful Life



The True Vine


The Tree of Life: God as Life-Bearer


Fruitful yet Fragile


Greening Power and "the Flesh"



One Body


The Anima of Animals


Limits and Liberation


One Body



Cities of God


Cities of Peace and Plenty


A "Society of Aliens" and an Abundance of Friends


"A Harmonious Unity in Plurality"


Epilogue Pilgrims' Process: Salvation by Grace through Place


Notes


Photo Credits


Index (including biblical references)