Resources

Readings on Place and Religion

• Bouma-Prediger, Steven and Brian J. Walsh. Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2008.
• Christian Scholar’s Review 31 (Summer 2002). Theme Issue: Geography in Christian Perspective.
• Hamma, Robert M. Landscapes of the Soul: A Spirituality of Place. Notre Dame, IN: Ave Maria Press, 1999.
• Lane, Belden C. “Giving Voice to Place: Three Models for Understanding American Sacred Space.” Religion and American Culture 11:1 (2001): 53-81.
• Lane, Belden C. Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality. Expanded ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, (orig. 1988) 2001.
• Lane, Belden C. The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Readings on Place and Humans

• Basso, Keith H. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
• Berry, Wendell. A Place on Earth: A Novel. New ed. N.p.: Counterpoint, 2001.
• Casey, Edward S. The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
• Casey, Edward S. Getting Back Into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
• Entrikin, J. Nicholas. The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
• Gallagher, Winifred. The Power of Place: How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993.
• Jackson, John Brinckerhoff. A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
• Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape. New York: Touchstone, 1993.
• Leach, William. Country of Exiles: The Destruction of Place in American Life. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999.
• Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.

Readings on This Place (Northwest Iowa and Nearby)

• Amato, Joseph A. Rethinking Home: A Case for Writing Local History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
• Barlow, Philip and Mark Silk, eds. Religion and Public Life in the Midwest: America’s Common Denominator? Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2004.
• Bergman, Marvin, ed. Iowa History Reader. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1996.
• Buning, Sietze [Stanley Wiersma]. Purpaleanie and Other Permutations. Orange City, IA: Middleburg Press, 1978.
• Buning, Sietze [Stanley Wiersma]. Style and Class. Orange City, IA: Middleburg Press, 1982.
• De Jong, Gerald F. From Strength to Strength: A History of Northwestern, 1882-1982. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, [1982].
• Harnack, Curtis. Gentlemen on the Prairie. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1985.
• Hokanson, Drake. Reflecting a Prairie Town: A Year in Peterson. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994.
• Jensen, Joan M. Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2006.
• Nieuwenhuis, G. Nelson. Siouxland: A History of Sioux County, Iowa. Orange City: Sioux County Historical Society, 1983.
• Sayre, Robert F., ed. Take This Exit: Rediscovering the Iowa Landscape. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1989.
• Sisson, Richard, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton, eds. The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
• Stellingwerff, Johan. Iowa Letters: Dutch Immigrants on the American Frontier. Ed. Robert P. Swierenga. Trans. Walter Lagerwey. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2004.
• Wishart, David J., ed. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

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