Nature religion in America : from the Algonkian Indians to the New Age
Charts the multiple histories of American nature religion and explores the moral and spiritual responses the encounter with nature has provoked throughout American history. Traces the connections between movements and individuals. Includes figures from popular culture such as the Hutchinson Family Singers and Davy Crockett as well as Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and John Muir
History
xvi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780226011455, 9780226011462, 0226011453, 0226011461
20294563
1. Native ground: nature and culture in early America
2. Republican nature: from the revolution that was lawful to the destiny that was manifest
3. Wildness and the passing show: transcendental religion and its legacies
4. Physical religion: natural sin and healing grace in the nineteenth century
5. Recapitulating pieties: nature's nation in the late twentieth century