Gould, Rebecca Kneale,  1963- <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-326) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0520241401 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520241428 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004027410 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013250613  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Country life--Religious aspects.<br/>Nature--Religious aspects.<br/>Spirituality--United States.<br/>Country life--United States.<br/>Nature and civilization--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Religious life and customs.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL2525  / .G69 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306/.0973