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Would you like to learn more about creating a spiritual home or garden? Sacredhome.com, in association with Amazon.com, has assembled a
focused selection of books to guide and inspire your efforts. From
exquisitely rendered photographic essays to practical resource references,
we're sure you will find something here that will delight you. And if you
know of a book you would like us to include, please let us know.
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 HOME ALTARS
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Altars and Icons : Sacred Spaces in Everyday Life
Jean McMann
Since ancient times, humans have revered certain objects as reminders of the spiritual and have honored them in shrines and altars. Author and photographer Jean McMann explores this tendency in all its complex modern forms, both religious and secular, in this tribute to altar making. Each artist--for that is what they are--tells the story of how a bookshelf, a mantel, a garden, or even a car became a repository of memory, inspiration, luck, and prayer. From Andrew Romanoff's memorabilia of ancestors who ruled Russia to Violet Ruth Super's shrine to Elvis, a moving purity of feeling underlies each pebble and postcard.
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Altars Made Easy
Peg Streep
Readers who are interested in the practical aspects of building an altar in their home should take a look at this book. Just as its title implies, Altars Made Easy is a resource guide that explains such topics as which materials to use, how to incorporate sacred symbols, and how to use totems and guardians to create spiritual energy. The book also lists a variety of sources for altar materials and a bibliography for further research.
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Altars: Bringing Sacred Shrines into Your Everyday
Denise Linn
This beautifully written book offers instruction and inspiration to those who want to integrate altars into their daily lives. Author Denise Linn (Sacred Space, Quest, Sacred Legacies) helps readers become more conscious of what they are already unconsciously doing: creating altars in the kitchen corners, on shelves, and in other everyday spaces in their homes. "The urge to create sacred spaces is so deep in the human psyche that, even when there is no formalized intent to make an altar, we often create them subconsciously by the way we gather our photos on a piano, or by the way we carefully arrange objects on a desk or around a computer," Linn writes.
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Beautiful Necessity
Kay Turner
In the most basic sense, an altar is a home for sacred images, a place for venerating and inviting the comfort, help, and companionship of the gods. But the amazing, dazzling, decorative, poignant, picturesque, inspiring, glowing, passionate altars in this book are not those of churches and temples, designed for the official worship of an omniscient god ceremoniously tended by a priest, rabbi or minister. Instead, these places are the expression of the most intimate beliefs and fears, memories and dreams of women who are making new spiritual traditions from ancient ones.
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La Casa Loca
Kathy Cano-Murillo
Latino style is a huge and growing trend in home decorating and fashion. Latina personality Kathy Cano-Murillo takes the explosive colors and iconography of Latino style and merges it with pop art to create an inspirational craft book with a hip, contemporary sensibility. The twist: readers can create their very own casa loca crazy house by hand.
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Living Shrines : Home Altars of New Mexico
Marie Romero Cash, et al
This is a beautifully photographed book of home altars of primarily Hispanic families living in New Mexico. Essays derived from interviews of owners and residents provide the reader with religious, historical, and cultural background for the use of personal shrines.
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Making Shadow Boxes and Shrines
Kathy Cano-Murillo
Our most joyful SacredHome artist has a new book! Support American folk artists and learn how to create your own art and soul.
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