Nature Religion in America
From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age
9780226011462
Nature Religion in America
From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age
284 pages | 12 halftones, frontispiece | 6 x 9 | © 1990
Chicago History of American Religion
History: American History
Religion: American Religions
Table of Contents
Foreword, by Martin E. Marty
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Case for Nature Religion
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
Epilogue
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Case for Nature Religion
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
Epilogue
Notes
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index