“Middle of Nowhere is a highly readable account that also evokes the mystery and pathos of the place.”—Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief
“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
