Erin Reno- Landscapes of the Sacred #2
Puritan Pilgrims and Spiritual Ties to Landscape in American Culture
Discussed in class, American culture contains a strong identification with the land. In class we brought up the novels by James Fenimore Cooper who wrote, among other famous novels depicting Native American and frontier life, Last of the Mohicans. This identification with the land takes on a spiritual lens when looked at through the eyes of the Puritan pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock. The book notes that they were just as fascinated with the spirituality of the North American wilderness as with the holy scriptures. It can then be inferred that the fascination with landscape in American culture predates its roots to before the founding of the country, to the early days of European settlement and religious views that were brought along across the Atlantic.
Discussed in class, American culture contains a strong identification with the land. In class we brought up the novels by James Fenimore Cooper who wrote, among other famous novels depicting Native American and frontier life, Last of the Mohicans. This identification with the land takes on a spiritual lens when looked at through the eyes of the Puritan pilgrims who landed on Plymouth Rock. The book notes that they were just as fascinated with the spirituality of the North American wilderness as with the holy scriptures. It can then be inferred that the fascination with landscape in American culture predates its roots to before the founding of the country, to the early days of European settlement and religious views that were brought along across the Atlantic.
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