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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Outsiders All: Art, Religion, and Sacred Space -- Chapter 2 "Nowhere Else Is Like This": 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 "Up Close, It Became the World": Pilgrimage to Salvation Mountain -- Chapter 6 "Lord Jesus, I Gave Them My Very Best": Bad Religion, Bad Art, and the Quest for Good Taste. |
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Chapter 7 The Disappearance of Sacred Space? Authority and Authenticity in the Desert -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y. |
| Summary |
In Middle of Nowhere Sara M. Patterson argues that Leonard Knight was a spiritual descendant of the early Christian desert ascetics who escaped to the desert in order to experience God more fully. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Knight, Leonard, 1931-2014.
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Knight, Leonard, 1931-2014. |
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Outsider artists -- United States -- Biography.
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Outsider artists. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Outsider art -- California -- Salton Sea Region.
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Outsider art. |
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California -- Salton Sea Region. |
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Installations (Art) -- California -- Salton Sea Region.
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Installations (Art) |
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Christian art and symbolism.
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Christian art and symbolism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Patterson, Sara M., 1974- Middle of nowhere 9780826356307 (DLC) 2015014396 (OCoLC)907642186 |
| ISBN |
9780826356314 (electronic book) |
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0826356311 (electronic book) |
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9780826356307 |
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0826356303 |
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