TY - BOOK AU - Gould,Rebecca Kneale TI - At home in nature: modern homesteading and spiritual practice in America SN - 0520241401 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - BL2525 .G69 2005 U1 - 306/.0973 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Country life KW - Religious aspects KW - Nature KW - Spirituality KW - United States KW - Nature and civilization KW - Religious life and customs N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004027410.html ER -