Nature religion in America : from the Algonkian Indians to the New Age / Catherine L. Albanese.

Foreword - Martin E. Marty. 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

'...charts the multiple histories of American nature religion and explores the moral and spiritual responses the encounter with nature has provoked throughout American history.'

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