This study sheds light on the identity negotiation processes inside the African American Muslim communities and the post-1960s immigrant Muslim communities both before and after 9/11, and the various hurdles that have impeded the development of a pluralistic American Muslim identity. It locates the American Muslim experience within the omnibus context of religious pluralism and draws on Barbara McGraw’s “the American Sacred Ground” theoretical framework (2003) to gauge advances and setbacks in such identity negotiation processes. While gleaning insights from the works of scholars of Islam and religious pluralism in America, this study is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the USA between 2002 and 2006. After 9/11, both communities came to realize that it is vital to engage in a process of self-critique and confront the challenges of reinventing themselves on the American pluralistic tapestry. While the African American Sunni communities tried to reinvent themselves as ‘new Muslims’, the immigrant communities found themselves compelled to reinvent themselves as “new Americans”. In studying some facets of such an inter- and intracommunity identity (re)negotiation process, this article argues that perennial internal factionalism and the promotion of changing US foreign policy agendas in the Muslim world still represent a major stumbling block towards developing an American Muslim identity that draws on its many streams.

In January 1994, Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music, a first-time radio series collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and National Public Radio, began airing on hundreds of NPR affiliate stations throughout America. An ambitious and influential series of 26 hour-long documentary programs, Wade explored 200 years of black sacred music, including spirituals, ring shouts, lined hymns, jazz, and gospel. The series also featured the insights of music creators, performers, listeners, and historians who could place African American sacred music traditions within the social, political, and cultural context of their times. Wade eventually won a Peabody Award and other awards of distinction. Conceived and hosted by Smithsonian Institution curator, artist, and MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellow Bernice Johnson Reagon, Wade required an intensive, five-year-long fundraising, research, and production journey of commitment. As the series’ associate producer, this article’s author worked with a host of dedicated radio producers, researchers, engineers, scholars, and music collectors who helped to make Wade a reality. Therefore, this article describes the series’ production journey from the vantage point of an insider, and it serves as a personal reflection on the making of a series that would set the standard for future long-form, NPR-based music documentary productions.

Landscapes of the Secular: Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space, by Nicholas Howe

Book Review: Landscapes of the Secular: Law, Religion, and American Sacred Space

When we take in scenic landscapes, we are accustomed to seeing the sacred. And why not? From indigenous peoples whose origin stories are rooted in native terrain, to Puritans who detected wonders and portents in natural phenomena, to artists and tourists who marveled at the sublime, to preservationists who encountered God in wild places, and even to the New Ageists who find healing and harmony in natural settings, centuries of seekers have imbued earthly scenes with divine meaning. But does this fact alone mean that landscapes are spiritually charged? Nicolas Howe, in his tightly argued and vibrantly written book, suggests that it does not. Rather, he asks us to consider the opposite proposition: that landscapes have no inborn spiritual meaning at all, but are neutral stages on which the dramas of secularism and religious pluralism play out, and where the law has attempted (often feebly) to mediate the tensions between them.

This research paper is a review of ten years of sacred lands management and policy in the United States. The author reports from the unique position of having been involved in national and international meetings with communities of indigenous peoples and intergovernmental stakeholders during this time. Discussion includes an historical overview of such topics as environmental justice and the 2001 Native American Sacred Lands Forum, one of the first national meetings in the United States to specifically address the sacred lands of Native Americans. Further discussion draws attention to the adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in 2007 as a gateway to better sacred lands management and policy for Native Americans in the future.

<i>The Animals Came Dancing: Native American Sacred Ecology and Animal Kinship</i>. Howard L. Harrod

Sacrilege becomes secular in James, a crime against another individual's autonomy. It is an engulfing of Otherness by the desire of a self or the dogma of a creed. When James dramatizes desecrations of the Church or makes scriptural allusions, this is not literary fancywork. He is advertising his ultimate values by characterizing a threat to them as sacrilegious unto Satanic. These values--the sanctity of other people, the rich solidity of the world, equal (not domineering or enslaved) participation in social life--constitute James's American sacred. The values surprise by their commonplace quality, yet for James they are not givens but the very rare achievements of an almost impossible quest against the self's tendency to drown reality in psyche. In what he sees as a time of an unprecedented freedom of thought and belief, James records a shock at the new sorrows of this lonely liberation: it can lead to an unchecked and delusive solipsism. He then proposes the strenuous terms for putting together a world not coequal with the self but redemptively larger.

Ten miles east of Bighorn Canyon in northern Wyoming, you start to climb up out of the desert heat toward Medicine Mountain, looming in the distant haze. At this point, Highway 14A begins a torturous seven-mile ascent along a 10 percent grade, rising ever higher into sweet clover and green meadows, spruce trees and lodgepole pines. Staying in first or second gear the whole way up, your engine still overheats by the time you have reached the crest. But, if you follow the small National Forest sign off to the left near the summit and walk another mile and a half after parking the car, you come to what seems to be the top of the world: the Great Medicine Wheel, high in the Big-horn Mountains, an ancient eighty-foot diameter circle of rocks with a cairn in the center and twenty-eight spokes radiating out to the rim.

Ten miles east of Bighorn Canyon in northern Wyoming, you start to climb up out of the desert heat toward Medicine Mountain, looming in the distant haze. At this point, Highway 14A begins a torturous seven-mile ascent along a 10 percent grade, rising ever higher into sweet clover and green meadows, spruce trees and lodgepole pines. Staying in first or second gear the whole way up, your engine still overheats by the time you have reached the crest. But, if you follow the small National Forest sign off to the left near the summit and walk another mile and a half after parking the car, you come to what seems to be the top of the world: the Great Medicine Wheel, high in the Big-horn Mountains, an ancient eighty-foot diameter circle of rocks with a cairn in the center and twenty-eight spokes radiating out to the rim.

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Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions

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Journal of American CultureVolume 19, Issue 4 p. 121-129 Book Reviews First published: Winter 1996 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734X.1996.1904_121.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract How the West was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay. Stephen Aron Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852. David Schuyler The National Road. Edited by Karl Raitz Possessed by the Past. David Lowenthal The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes a Public History. Delores Hayden Covers of the Saturday Evening Post: Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America's Favorite Magazine. The Mountain West: Interpreting the Folk Landscape. Terry G. Jordan, Jon T. Kilpinen and Charles F. Gritzner American Theatre: A Chronicle of Comedy and Drama, 1930-1969. Gerald Bordman Herman Melville: A Biography Vol. 1, 1819-1851. Hershel Parker Belonging to the Army: Camp Followers and Community During the American Revolution. Holly A. Mayer The Lasting of the Mohicans: History of an American Myth. Martin Barker and Roger Sabin American Sacred Space. David Chidester and Edward T. Linenthal, eds Tokens of Affection: The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South. Carol Bleser, ed Cultural Conservatism, Political Liberalism: From Criticism to Cultural Studies. James Seaton Biographies of Books: The Compositional Histories of Notable American Writings. James Barbour and Tom Quirk, eds Seeking Pleasure in the Old West. David Dary Attack of the Leading Ladies: Gender, Sexuality, and Spectatorship in Classic Horror Cinema. Rhona J. Berenstein Abandoned In The Wasteland: Children, Television, and the First Amendment. Newton N. Minow and Craig L. Lamay Volume19, Issue4Winter 1996Pages 121-129 RelatedInformation

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1947, Linenthal earned his bachelor's degree in religious studies at Western Michigan University, his master's degree in divinity at the Pacific School of Religion, and his Ph.D. in religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is Professor of Religion and American Culture at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. His books include: Symbolic Defense: The Cultural Significance of the Strategic Defense Initiative (1989); Sacred Ground: Americans and their Battlefields (2nd edition, 1993); Preserving Memory: The Struggle to Create America's Holocaust Museum (1995); American Sacred Space (co‐editor, 1995). He is writing a history of the A‐Bomb controversy that will appear in a book to be published in 1996. Linenthal has often lectured about controversial historic sites for National Park Service staff. At the USS Arizona Memorial, Linenthal delivered a commemorative address on 7 December 1994, on the 53rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Linenthal and his wife, with their two sons, reside in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.Linenthal was the only historian to testify before the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration about the National Air and Space Museum's ill‐fated exhibit, “The Last Act: The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II.” What follows is Linenthal's Senate statement and comments he has written for The Historian.

Three Centuries of American Music: A Collection of American Sacred and Secular Music

Book Review| April 01 1992 Review: American Sacred Music Imprints 1698-1810: A Bibliography by Allen Perdue Britton, Irving Lowens, Richard Crawford American Sacred Music Imprints 1698-1810: A BibliographyAllen Perdue BrittonIrving LowensRichard Crawford Nicholas Temperley Nicholas Temperley Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (1992) 45 (1): 123–131. https://doi.org/10.2307/831492 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Nicholas Temperley; Review: American Sacred Music Imprints 1698-1810: A Bibliography by Allen Perdue Britton, Irving Lowens, Richard Crawford. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 1992; 45 (1): 123–131. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/831492 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1992 The American Musicological Society, Inc. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

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<i>American Sacred Music Imprints, 1698–1810: A Bibliography</i>. Allen Perdue Britton , Irving Lowens , Richard Crawford

American Sacred Music Imprints, 1698-1810: A Bibliography