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Author Meyer, Jeffrey F

Title Myths in stone : religious dimensions of Washington, D.C. / Jeffrey F. Meyer
Published Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (343 pages)
Contents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; PART I The Axis of Power; PART II The Axis of Enlightenment; PART III The Axis of Memory; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary This is an examination of Washington DC as a secular pilgrimage site. Meyer argues that the city was conceived and executed along various axes of power and influence that suggest the central and continually contested values that inform religious and civic beliefs
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sacred space -- Washington (D.C.)
HISTORY -- State & Local.
Religion
Sacred space
SUBJECT Washington (D.C.) -- Religion
Subject Washington (D.C.)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520921344
0520921348
0585391777
9780585391779
159734768X
9781597347686
9780520214811
0520214811