{"product_id":"sacred-wonderland-the-history-of-religion-in-yellowstone-hardback-9781496209955","title":"Sacred Wonderland; The History of Religion in Yellowstone (Hardback) 9781496209955","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSacred Wonderland\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe History of Religion in Yellowstone\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThomas S. Bremer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496209955\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e252 pages, 7 photographs, 6 illustrations, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“Timely and immensely important. \u003ci\u003eSacred Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e reads like a clear-eyed love letter to national parks-written by a person who has contemplated all the complexities, violences, and concessions made in the formation of the U.S. national park system.”-Brandi Denison, author of \u003ci\u003eUte Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Thomas Bremer knows intimately the attractions of Yellowstone and the spiritual allures of the landscape, and he offers a religious history of this American wonderland that takes with utmost seriousness the multiform reverence the park has inspired. At the same time Bremer brings the politics of this spirituality into sharp focus, including the civilizing, colonizing, and racial logics that underpinned so much of this appropriation of wild lands for the romanticized quests of seekers and tourists. It is a richly varied story of grand sweep-from Jesuit missionaries to Protestant financiers, from landscape painters convinced of the nation’s providential destiny to Emersonian wayfarers and naturalists. That variety comes to its peak in Bremer’s masterful account of how the Church Universal and Triumphant, a new religious movement that sought refuge in the region, incorporated Yellowstone into its esoteric cosmology. A work of historical subtlety and honest ambivalence, Sacred Wonderland makes for great reading.”-Leigh Eric Schmidt, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Church of Saint Thomas Paine: A Religious History of American Secularism\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSacred Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e’s argument regarding the history of religion in Yellowstone and its imbrication in settler colonialism, Manifest Destiny, white supremacy, and genocide is important because the enduring legacy of these four factors continues to shape the current social and political landscape. With its concern for the exercise of (soft) power, \u003ci\u003eSacred Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e stands at the leading edge of historical scholarship on nature, preservation and conservation, and religion as a social and political force.”-Kerry Mitchell, author of \u003ci\u003eSpirituality and the State: Managing Nature and Experience in America’s National Parks\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSince its beginning in 1872, Yellowstone National Park has been an alluring destination with significance beyond its stunning mountain scenery, abundant wildlife, and the world’s largest collection of geysers and hot springs. Once deemed America’s “wonderland,” this national park has long been a repository of meanings for and aspirations of the American people. In \u003ci\u003eSacred Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e Thomas S. Bremer explores the historical role of religion in making Yellowstone National Park an American icon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The park’s religious history spans nineteenth-century evangelical Christian ideas of Manifest Destiny in addition to religiously informed conservationist movements. Bremer touches on white supremacist interpretations of the park in the early twentieth century and a controversial new religious movement that arrived on the scene in the 1980s. From early assumptions about Native American beliefs to eclectic New Age associations, from early rivalries between nineteenth-century Protestants and Catholics to twentieth-century ecumenical cooperation, religion has been woven into the cultural fabric of Yellowstone. Bremer reveals a range of religious beliefs, practices, and interpretations that have contributed to making the park an appealing tourist destination and a significant icon of the American nation.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Prelude: Rites of Passage\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: A Sacred Wonderland\u003cbr\u003e 1. Where Hell Bubbled Up\u003cbr\u003e 2. For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People\u003cbr\u003e 3. Pilgrimage to Wonderland\u003cbr\u003e 4. Sacred Nature and the White Race\u003cbr\u003e 5. Evangelizing Wonderland\u003cbr\u003e 6. New Age Yellowstone\u003cbr\u003e Postlude: An Ambivalence of Affections\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599892050200,"sku":"9781496209955","price":35.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sacred-wonderland-the-history-of-religion-in-yellowstone-hardback-9781496209955","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}