Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, the Strange, and the Substance of Faith

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Author/Contributor(s): Beal, Timothy Publisher: Beacon Press Date: 5/1/2006 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW In the summer of 2002, Timothy K. Beal loaded his family into a twenty -nine-foot-long motor home and hit the rural highways of America in search of roadside religious attractions-sites like the World's Largest Ten Commandments and Precious Moments Chapel. Roadside Religion tells of his attempts to understand the meaning of these places as expressions of religious imagination and experience, and to encounter faith in all its awesome absurdity. Show more