Synopses & Reviews
"... a literary pilgrimage as well as a spiritual one."
Synopsis
"... a literary pilgrimage as well as a spiritual one." --Indianapolis Star
"... a powerful statement about the religious diversity of America... an indispensable volume." --National Catholic Reporter
The more mobile and rootless and virtual we become as a culture, the more we long for vital connections to the places in which we find ourselves. The editors, photographers, poets and writers in this volume have sought to grapple with the issue of place and spirit in a typical American city at the end of the 20th century: Indianapolis, Indiana. They focus on the connections, or lack thereof, between the seen and the unseen in a place historically significant for its typicality.
About the Author
J. Kent Calder is Managing Editor, the Indiana Historical Society, and Editor of the Society's illustrated magazine, Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History.
Susan Neville is a professor of English at Butler University. She has published several collections of short stories, including Indiana Winter (Indiana University Press, 1994).
Kim Charles Ferrill is a freelance photographer who works with the Indiana Historical Society. He has illustrated two books, Hoosier Faiths (Indiana University Press, 1995) and Where God's People Meet (Guild Press, 1996).
Table of Contents
Editors' Introductions
Skinny Bow Ties, J. Kent Calder
Passport to the Other, Kim Charles Ferrill
Falling Toward Grace, Susan Neville
Sunday's Turning, Alice Friman
Silence, Scott Russell Sanders
Diversity and Details: Our Sacred Spaces, Kim Charles Ferrill
Seasons of the Spirit, Jeanette Vanausdall
In Lucky Dark: With the Beach Grove Benedictines, Patricia Henley
Kaddish, Bert Stern
Expressions: Statements of Jewish Faith at the Millennium, Jeffrey Wolin
Still Catholic, Dan Carpenter
The Blood Tie, Dan Wakefield
High School Spirit, Barbara Shoup
The Fashionable Church, Nancy Niblack Baxter
A Year of Sundays: Living the Covenant of Friendship Baptist Church, Tyagan Miller
Recalling: A Theologian Remembers His Church, Stephen H. Webb
Birthday Poem, Ethridge Knight
The Desert of Eden, Jim Poyser
A Bond of Faith: Islam in Indianapolis, Carl Pope
The Empty Garden, Alice Friman
Pilgrimage on the Flat Land, Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
Worlds Old and New, Marianne Boruch
Souls in Solitary Communion, David Hoppe
Community of Joy: All Who Sorrow Eastern Orthodox Church, Darryl Jones
Charity, Alyce Miller
Crossed Roads: (The Midwestern Covenant), Andrew Levy
Iconography: Scenes of Indianapolis and Elsewhere, Michael Martone
Counting Losses, Aron Aji
A Resonance of Spirit: Abandoned Places of Faith, Ginny Taylor Rosner
Sacred Space in Ordinary Time, Susan Neville