The New Religious Image of Urban America, Second Edition ：The Shopping Mall as Ceremonial Center ( 2nd ed. )

Publication subTitle ：The Shopping Mall as Ceremonial Center

Publication series ：2nd ed.

Author： Ira G. Zepp   Jr.  

Publisher： University Press Of Colorado‎

Publication year： 1997

E-ISBN: 9781607321293

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780870814365

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780870814365

Subject： B9 Religion

Keyword： Shopping malls -- Religious aspects., Shopping malls -- United States., United States -- Religion -- 1960-

Language： ENG

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Description

The only book that deals with the religious dimensions of malls. First published in 1986, it has been updated and expanded to include a new chapter on airports and ballparks as forms of the mall, and it also now includes a critical response.

Chapter

Contents

Foreword

Preface 1997

Preface to the First Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. More Than a Marketplace: The Religious Nature of Shopping Malls

What Is Religious About Malls

2. From Bel Air to Lenox Square

Saturday Night in Bel Air

The Malling of America

3. The Shopping Mall as Sacred Space

The Nature of the Center

Center as Source of Power

Center as Celestial Echo

Center as Sign of Order

Symbols at the Center

Water of Life

Cosmic Tree

Human Activity at the Center

Community at the Center

Community Services for the Whole Person

Community as Meeting of Persons

High Touch of Shopping

Community Outreach

Transition: James Rouse — Mahatma of Malls

4. Mall as Sacred Time

Festival Marketplace

Nature of Play

Types of Play

Ceremonial Center

Ceremonial Meal

MaIl as Secular Cathedral

5. Concluding Observations: From Lenox Square to Bel Air

An Attempt to Retain the Personal

6. The Mall Is Not Over

The Call of the Mall

The Megamalls

Traditional Religious Presence: Ministy to the Mall

Mall-Lingering

Mal de Mall

Mall Parks and Mall Ports

Art at the Mall

Myth of the Mall: Malls ‘R’ Us

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

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