- 224 pages
- English
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About this book
Pilgrims travel thousands of miles to visit Salvation Mountain, a unique religious structure in the Southern California desert. Built by Leonard Knight (1931–2014), variously described as a modern-day prophet and an outsider artist, Salvation Mountain offers a message of divine love for humanity. In Middle of Nowhere Sara M. Patterson argues that Knight was a spiritual descendant of the early Christian desert ascetics who escaped to the desert in order to experience God more fully. Like his early Christian predecessors, Knight received visitors from all over the world who were seeking his wisdom. In Knight’s wisdom they found a critique of capitalism, a challenge to religious divisions, and a celebration of the common person. Recounting the pilgrims’ stories, Middle of Nowhere examines how Knight and the pilgrims constructed a sacred space, one that is now crumbling since the death of its creator.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Outsiders All: Art, Religion, and Sacred Space
- Chapter 2 âNowhere Else Is Like Thisâ: The Space of the Place
- Chapter 3 Gift Giving and Mountain Making: Exchange and Sacred Space
- Chapter 4 When Prophet Meets Exile: Salvation Mountain and the Paradox of Freedom in the American West
- Chapter 5 âUp Close, It Became the Worldâ: Pilgrimage to Salvation Mountain
- Chapter 6 âLord Jesus, I Gave Them My Very Bestâ: Bad Religion, Bad Art, and the Quest for Good Taste
- Chapter 7 The Disappearance of Sacred Space? Authority and Authenticity in the Desert
- Notes
- Index
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