Devoted to nature : the religious roots of American environmentalism / Evan Berry.

By: Berry, Evan, 1977- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]Copyright date: 2015Description: 1 online resource (282 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780520961142Subject(s): Human ecology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Human ecology -- United States | Environmentalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Environmentalism -- United States | Nature -- Religious aspects -- ChristianityGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 261.8/80973 LOC classification: BT695.5 | .B465 2015Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Recreation and soteriology -- Congregating around nature -- Sacred space and the American environmental imagination -- Recreation and spiritual experience -- Conclusion : the mechanics of religious change.
Summary: "Devoted to Nature explores the religious underpinnings of American environmentalism, tracing the theological character of American environment thought from their Romantic foundations to contemporary discourse about nature spirituality. This history is most readily visible during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, when religious sources tangibly shaped ideas about the natural world, recreational practices, and modes of social and political interaction. The roots of the environmental movement evidence explicitly Christian understandings of salvation, redemption, and progress, which provided the context for Americans enthusiastic about the out-of-doors and established the horizons of possibility for the national environmental imagination"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Recreation and soteriology -- Congregating around nature -- Sacred space and the American environmental imagination -- Recreation and spiritual experience -- Conclusion : the mechanics of religious change.

"Devoted to Nature explores the religious underpinnings of American environmentalism, tracing the theological character of American environment thought from their Romantic foundations to contemporary discourse about nature spirituality. This history is most readily visible during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, when religious sources tangibly shaped ideas about the natural world, recreational practices, and modes of social and political interaction. The roots of the environmental movement evidence explicitly Christian understandings of salvation, redemption, and progress, which provided the context for Americans enthusiastic about the out-of-doors and established the horizons of possibility for the national environmental imagination"--Provided by publisher.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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