Sacralizing 3-4 essays.

Making Liminal, Memorializing, Pilgrimage, Ecologizing

These essays examine place as the site of sacred activities. At certain moments in life, people move—both figuratively and spatially—into distinctive liminal spaces: places for personal transformation or contact with that which is perceived as greater than humanity: a deity, a theodicized Nature, a zone of ambiguity such as a moor or forest where personal freedoms can have free rein. Over time, the landscape also becomes marked by monuments or nomenclature aimed at celebrating or remembering people, deities or events of importance. People come to live within a world steeped in memories, sacralized by generations of the past. Narratives or poetic assertions of such experiences and relationships become the bases for texts. Sometimes authors work to shift the agent of sacralization away from humanity, investing nature's own rhythms and seasons with a sacrality that seems to defy human control.

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