NMC Library

At home in nature : modern homesteading and spiritual practice in America /

Gould, Rebecca Kneale, 1963-

At home in nature : modern homesteading and spiritual practice in America / Rebecca Kneale Gould. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. - xxx, 350 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-326) and index.

Conversion -- Getting (not too) close to nature -- Homemade ritual -- Interlude: interpreting ambivalence: homesteading as spiritual and cultural work -- The re-enchantment of the farm: John Burroughs goes back to the land -- Scott Nearing and the social gospel of agriculture -- Ambivalent legacies I: the dynamics of engagement and retreat -- Ambivalent legacies II: gender, class, nature and religion -- Appendix: of hoes and huckleberries: a note on method.

0520241401 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520241428 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2004027410

013250613 Uk


Country life--Religious aspects.
Nature--Religious aspects.
Spirituality--United States.
Country life--United States.
Nature and civilization--United States.


United States--Religious life and customs.

BL2525 / .G69 2005

306/.0973

Powered by Koha