Middle of Nowhere - by Sara M Patterson (Paperback)

About the Book

In Middle of Nowhere Sara M. Patterson argues that Leonard Knight was a spiritual descendant of the early Christian desert ascetics who escaped to the desert in order to experience God more fully.

Book Synopsis

In Middle of Nowhere Sara M. Patterson argues that Leonard Knight was a spiritual descendant of the early Christian desert ascetics who escaped to the desert in order to experience God more fully.

Review Quotes

Patterson exhibits a remarkable talent for making theory accessible to a broader audience. . . . Patterson's book exhibits some of the best of the academic study of religion.
--Reading Religion

Sara Patterson deftly situates Salvation Mountain within the important setting of the harsh desert from which it rises, the passionate responses of those who trekked to see artist and work, and the Evangelical religion that inspired the artist and sings loudly in the colorful mountain, even as it now slowly returns to the nowhere whence it came.
--David Morgan, author of The Embodied Eye: Religious Visual Culture and the Social Life of Feeling

About the Author

Sara M. Patterson is an associate professor of theological studies at Hanover College, where she teaches courses on the history of Christianity, religion in America, and the intersections of religion, gender, race, and ethnicity.