Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New AgeCharts 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. |
Contents
The Case for Nature Religion | 1 |
Nature and Culture in Early America | 16 |
From the Revolution That Was Lawful to the Destiny That Was Manifest | 47 |
Transcendental Religion and Its Legacies | 80 |
Natural Sin and Healing Grace in the Nineteenth Century | 117 |
Natures Nation in the Late Twentieth Century | 153 |
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Nature Religion in America: From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age Catherine L. Albanese No preview available - 1991 |
Common terms and phrases
Albanese Algonkian Almanac Amerindian animal Annie Dillard Bear Tribe body Boston century chiropractic Christian physiology Crockett culture cure Dillard disease divine earth Edwards Emerson emphasis in original energy Enlightenment essay Freemasonry Goddess gospel Green Politics harmony Harper & Row healers healing Henry David History human Hutchinson Family Hutchinson Family Singers ibid Indian John Muir Journal language living macrobiotic magnetic Manitou Mary Baker Mary Baker Eddy material matter medicine wheel mesmeric Michio Kushi millennial mind moral mountains move movement Muir's myth nation Native American nature religion nature's nineteenth nineteenth-century Osteopathy philosophical physical religion Puritans Quimby Quimby's Reiki religion of nature religious reprint republican Revolution ritual sacred Samdahl sense shaman Society spiritual Spretnak Starhawk sublime Sun Bear Swedenborg symbol teaching theme theology things Thomas Jefferson Thomsonian Thoreau thought tion trans Transcendentalism Transcendentalists ture University Press vision Water-Cure wild wilderness William writings wrote York
References to this book
Caring for Creation: An Ecumenical Approach to the Environmental Crisis Max Oelschlaeger Limited preview - 1996 |
Religion in Modern Times: An Interpretive Anthology Linda Woodhead,Paul Heelas No preview available - 2000 |