Nature Religion in America
From the Algonkian Indians to the New Age

284 pages
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12 halftones, frontispiece
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6 x 9
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© 1990
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Table of Contents

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
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