Suggested reading

Books by Kathleen Norris

Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.

The Cloister Walk. New York: Riverhead Books, 1997.

Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

Journey: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1999. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2001.

Little Girls in Church. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.

The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and "Women's Work". New York: Paulist Press, c1998.

The Virgin of Bennington. New York: Riverhead Books, 2002.

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Books by Jim Heynen

Being Youngest. Henry Holt Co 1997.[Children's Collection]

The Boys' House: Stories. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historial Society Press, 2001.

Cosmos Coyote and William the Nice. New York: Holt, 2000. [Children's Collection]

The One-room Schoolhouse: Stories about the Boys. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Standing Naked: New and Selected Poems. Lewiston, ID: Confluence Press, 2001.

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Place and religion

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.

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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.

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Place, here or 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.

____________. 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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